Senior Software Development Engineer in Test
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 22, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 21, 2026. Akamai scores A on the Alion truth index.
Do you want to lead automated quality engineering for next-generation cloud infrastructure?
Are you passionate about Automation Developing?
Join our Compute Team!
Akamai's Compute Team aims to simplify, scale, and make cloud computing accessible and affordable globally. Hosting vast virtual machines and data, the Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) on the Fleet Operations Team leads automated test strategies, framework architecture, and quality assurance for software platform maintenance and hypervisor upgrades across ARM and x86 compute infrastructure.
Partner with the best
This role involves offering technical expertise, architectural leadership, and automation development for the Fleet Ops project using modern tools. Responsibilities include researching, proposing, and integrating open-source test frameworks while building continuous validation suites for backend services, APIs, and orchestration tools. The work ensures seamless hypervisor upgrades and hardware maintenance with zero customer disruption, high availability, and robust fault tolerance.
As a Senior SDET on the Fleet Operations Team, you will be responsible for:
- Designing scalable, high-performance automated test frameworks and harnesses to validate fleet hypervisor upgrades, REST APIs, UI, and system CLI tools.
- Designing, scaling, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous integration, automated regression, and performance testing across infrastructure components.
- Automating intricate functional, integration, performance, and resilience testing for virtual machine lifecycle operations and comprehensive fleet-wide maintenance tasks.
- Designing SQL schema queries and state-tracking tests in relational databases to ensure data integrity, hardware monitoring, and automated fallback processes.
- Collaborating with developers, SRE, and datacenter ops teams to assess software architectures, enhance test systems, and remove quality bottlenecks.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Demonstrate expertise in software development, quality engineering, or backend automation, paired with formal education in Computer Science or related fields.
- Demonstrate expertise in Python and experience with Go, Linux/Bash scripting for backend automation, system tools, and test suites.
- Show expertise using Pytest, unittest, or nosetests, designing modular, maintainable API, CLI, and end-to-end integration test harnesses.
- Implement CI/CD and DevOps integration, utilizing Jenkins or GitHub Actions for pipeline scaling and advanced Git workflows expertise.
- Demonstrate extensive practical expertise with Linux-based operating systems.
- Demonstrate expertise in relational databases, SQL schema queries, state tracking, and applying analytical techniques for thorough data evaluation.
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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