Principal Software Development Engineer in

Responsibilities

• Own test strategy for hypervisor behavior, VM performance, and fleet-level quality gates.
• Mentor SDETs in statistical rigor and systems-level testing.
• Design reproducible container-based test environments that emulate bare-metal VM conditions and validate data integrity.
• Develop automated performance benchmarks with statistical baselines, change-point detection, and regression gating for CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with product and SRE teams to define SLO measurement and validate deployment safety and rollback strategies.
• Write test harnesses and performance analysis pipelines in Go, Python, and Perl.

Requirements

• Have 12 years of testing experience, including performance testing, hypervisor platforms, and systems engineering, or equivalent.
• Have experience with KVM, QEMU, libvirt internals, VM-exits, and NUMA/cache performance effects.
• Debug across x86 and ARM architectures in bare-metal and emulated environments and isolate failure root causes.
• Demonstrate strong Linux fundamentals covering scheduling, memory management, I/O subsystems, storage architectures, and block devices.
• Demonstrate statistical thinking in experimental design, baseline analysis, variance control, and stakeholder communication.
• Be proficient with Linux perf, VTune, eBPF, Bash, Jenkins, and SaltStack.

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangement through Akamai FlexBase, including working from home, in an office, or a combination of both.
• Benefits include healthcare, RRSP, company holidays, PTO, sick time, family-friendly benefits, employee assistance, and mental and financial wellness support; eligibility requirements apply.
• The compensation package may include annual bonus or incentives, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).