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Senior II Software Development Engineer in Test

Poland(Remote)

Job Description

Do you thrive on solving complex cloud datacenter networking challenges across a massive, globally distributed footprint?

Do you enjoy designing and building software to test and validate BGP, Linux networking, and hypervisor stacks?

Join our Routing Services Validation team!

The Cloud Networking division seeks an experienced Senior II Test Engineer for the Routing Services Validation team. Responsibilities include defining test strategies, designing detailed test plans, and creating automation frameworks to validate next-generation routing platforms.

Partner with the best

The role involves resolving software automation and verification challenges in a multi-vendor routing and switching environment. Collaboration with Network Engineering and Network Architecture teams will develop expertise in large-scale testing of routing protocols.

As a Senior II Software Development Engineer in Test, you will be responsible for:

• Designing and conducting thorough end-to-end functional validation for routing services, emphasizing BGP daemons, advanced networking technologies, and core protocols.
• Developing, deploying, and maintaining scalable automation frameworks, reusable libraries, fixtures, and tests, while integrating test suites into CI/CD pipelines.
• Conducting performance, stress, scalability, and resiliency testing with traffic generators, simulating internet-scale routing, high-throughput traffic, route changes, and failover scenarios.
• Conducting thorough root cause analysis of protocol state machine failures, routing anomalies, convergence issues, and system-level regressions to enhance software reliability.
• Contributing to test strategies, enhancing automation coverage, refining testing methods, and reviewing architecture and design to ensure thorough validation.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Possess education in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrate expertise in Network Validation, QA Automation, or Systems Testing with applicable and relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrate expertise in Layer 2/3 networking, TCP/IP, IPv4/IPv6, BGP, routing state machines, attributes, scaling, configuration, debugging, and validation.
• Develop scalable Python test automation with Pytest and network libraries like Netmiko, NAPALM, Scapy for functional validation and testing.
• Leverage high-scale traffic tools like Spirent, Landslide, Avalanche, or equivalents to validate performance, throughput, scalability, and system resilience effectively.
• Deploy containerized routing daemons, manage complex network topologies, and create virtual test environments using Docker Compose, Kind, and Linux tools.

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.

Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:

Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.

Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.

AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.

We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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Job Info

• Job Identification3185
• Posting Date06/26/2026, 06:12 AM
• LocationsCentrum Biurowe Vinci, Krakow, Malopolskie, 31-323, PL(Remote)

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