Principal Software Development Engineer in Test – Performance, Bare-Metal

🔥 15 hours ago

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $140.4k - $252.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⚙️ Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

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Akamai Technologies

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5001 - 10000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2001-07

Cloud Computing • Cybersecurity • Content Delivery

Akamai Technologies is a leading cloud services provider that specializes in delivering security, cloud computing, and content delivery solutions. It offers a range of services such as API security, DDoS protection, and performance optimization for web applications, ensuring secure and reliable user experiences. With a robust global infrastructure, Akamai empowers businesses to streamline their digital presence while safeguarding against various cyber threats and enhancing application performance.

📋 Description

• 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