Principal Software Development Engineer in Test Lead

Are you passionate about Performance Engineering & Automation at Scale? Are you passionate about Automation Developing? Join our Compute Team! Akamai's Compute Team focuses on simplifying, scaling, and making cloud computing globally accessible and affordable while fostering innovation. The Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) II handles automated testing, framework maintenance, and quality assurance. Responsibilities include maintaining software platforms and managing hypervisor upgrades within the growing infrastructure. Partner with the best This position delivers architectural guidance and technical expertise for performance engineering within Akamai Compute, emphasizing Meerkat's automation framework. Responsibilities include resolving performance bottlenecks, designing distributed benchmarking systems, and establishing hardware validation standards for advanced cloud infrastructure. As a Principal SDET Lead on the Meerkat team, your responsibilities will include: Designing and architecting scalable, distributed testing frameworks and automated benchmarking tools for advanced cloud computing platforms. Guiding and mentoring a team of engineers while defining technical vision, roadmap, and best practices for performance engineering and automated validation. Designing, developing, and maintaining automated testing frameworks to ensure software quality and reliability across various platforms. Defining and enforcing performance criteria, SLAs, and latency target