Senior Software Development Engineer in Test
Akamai Technologies, Inc.
IndiaremotePosted 17 days ago
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Key highlights
- Required experience: 5+ years
- Required education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- Key benefit: FlexBase flexible work program (remote, office, or hybrid)
- Core technical skills: Python or Go programming
- Core technical skills: Kubernetes, containers, infrastructure-as-code testing
- Automation frameworks: Jenkins, GitHub Actions
Role overview
Akamai's Cloud Platform Infrastructure Team accelerates innovation by providing infrastructure and services that enable developers to build next-generation applications, currently hosting hundreds of thousands of virtual machines and petabytes of data globally. As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), you will ensure system quality, build automation frameworks for microservice deployments, and drive impactful cloud projects with technical excellence, focusing on highly available, scalable, secure, performant, and distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- Improving internal processes and systems on a consistent basis
- Thinking about and building highly available, scalable, secure, performant and distributed systems
- Demonstrating excellence in coding and test automation in Python and Golang
- Ensure system quality
- Build automation frameworks for microservice deployments
- Drive impactful cloud projects with technical excellence
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- Good understanding of systems programming (GNU/Linux) and networking concepts
- Good programming skills in Python or Go
- Experience with functional and non-functional testing of containers, infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes, and related technologies
- Experience with agile work environments
- Able to write organized, efficient, and well-documented code
- Experience with automation tools and frameworks such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.
- Experience with Linux, networking, microservice, and Kubernetes fundamentals
Benefits
- FlexBase program: flexible work arrangements (work from home, in an office, or a combination of both)
- Comprehensive benefits supporting health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work (details referenced via 'See our benefits')
Additional details
- Team mission: accelerate innovation by making computing simple, scalable, accessible, and affordable
- Team currently hosts hundreds of thousands of virtual machines and petabytes of data for customers globally
- Akamai powers and protects the internet: Cloud and Edge (running apps closer to users), Security (neutralizing threats), Content Delivery (scaling biggest moments), AI (enabling customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform)
- Akamai makes life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day
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