Principal Software Development Engineer in Test (Performance & Bare-Metal)

What the index says about this role

• First seen by JobLarper — Oct 15, 2026, 2 days ago. Still inside the window where applications get read by a human rather than a pile.
• No pay range in our index for this listing. Across 1,749 indexed Software Engineer roles in US that do publish one, the middle half sits between $185k and $288k, median $225k — JobLarper's read of the market, not a figure from Akamai.
• What Software Engineer roles ask for — across 10,379 indexed openings: REST/APIs (41%), Python (38%), Backend (38%), Cloud (33%), Go (28%).
• Akamai is hiring actively — 199 open roles indexed, 108 first appeared in the last 30 days.

Derived from the 28,470 roles JobLarper indexes daily from official company boards — not from the job description above.