Principal Software Development Engineer in Test Lead
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 13, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 11, 2026. Akamai scores A on the Alion truth index.
Does building and validating a large-scale, high-performance compute storage platform excite you?
Do you love leading and motivating successful teams?
Join our Storage Team!
The Object Storage team in Cloud Technology Group prioritizes performance, scalability, and usability across a globally distributed platform. The infrastructure supports demanding workloads, including media delivery, data processing, AI training, and inferencing. Collaboration, inclusivity, and creativity drive continuous improvement. The mission is to provide a reliable storage platform that customers trust and consistently choose for their needs.
Shape the future of our Object Storage Platform
Apply large-scale testing expertise to uphold platform quality and reliability across functional and non-functional areas. Collaborate with teams to enhance automation, streamline test suite repeatability, and implement innovative validation methods for efficient and secure progress.
As a Principal Software Development Engineer in Test, you will be responsible for:
- Driving the testing strategy for Object Storage, ensuring test suites address customer usage and global operational management comprehensively.
- Establishing an efficient mechanism for detecting and remediating test flakes, such that we ensure our coverage at all times
- Ensuring the platform's non-functional areas meet capacity, performance, and resiliency requirements while enabling clear communication about these commitments.
- Tracking test planning for new features and additions to the system and ensuring quality of new tests
- Overseeing a small team of experienced engineers, guiding them as necessary to ensure excellent execution of all related tasks.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have relevant experience and an education in a Computer Science or related field.
- Possess extensive expertise as an SDET, testing software within distributed microservices environments, utilizing Python and Golang effectively for development.
- Have fluency in Python and Golang, with C++.
- Have prior experience of working in a Kubernetes environment
- Have prior experience in building and maintaining fully automated testing frameworks, which would include observability and reporting on execution of these
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
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