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Principal Software Development Engineer in Test – Performance, Bare-Metal
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About the role
- Principal SDET owning VM and fleet test strategy for Akamai’s distributed cloud and edge platform. Validating hypervisor behavior, performance benchmarks, and deployment safety.
Responsibilities
- Define and own test strategy for hypervisor behavior, VM performance, and fleet-level quality gates
- Mentor SDETs on statistical rigor and systems-level testing
- Design reproducible test environments that emulate bare-metal VM conditions using containers
- Validate data integrity without requiring physical hardware
- Develop automated performance benchmarks with statistical baselines, change-point detection, and regression gating for CI/CD pipelines
- Collaborate with product and SRE to define SLO measurement
- Validate deployment safety and rollback strategies
- Write test harnesses and performance analysis pipelines in Go, Python, and Perl
- Own VM/fleet test strategy, performance quality gates, and hypervisor behavior validation across the IaaS platform
Requirements
- 12 years in testing, including performance testing, hypervisor platforms, and systems engineering or its equivalent
- Experience in KVM/QEMU/libvirt internals, VM-exits, and NUMA/cache effects on performance
- Experience debugging across x86 and ARM architectures on bare metal and emulated environments
- Linux fundamentals, including scheduler, memory management, I/O subsystems, storage architectures, and block devices
- Statistical thinking, including experimental design, baseline analysis, and variance control
- Proficiency in Linux perf, VTune, eBPF, Bash, Jenkins, and SaltStack
- Experience writing test harnesses and performance analysis pipelines in Go, Python, and Perl
Benefits
- Annual bonus or incentives
- Equity awards
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Healthcare
- RRSP
- Company holidays
- Vacation in the form of PTO
- Sick time
- Family friendly benefits
- Employee assistance program
- Mental wellness support
- Financial wellness support
- Flexible work arrangements: at home, in an office, or a combination of both
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