Senior Backend Engineer

Akuity

Remote regions

US

Benefits

The Role:

  • As a senior engineer, actively build and improve Akuity's SaaS platform for the global developer community with an empathic, collaborative mindset.
  • Mentor team members on engineering best practices, participate in product development, and help contribute to company culture.
  • This position offers significant impact on developer tools and the global developer ecosystem.

What You’ll Own:

  • Design, build, test, and improve Akuity's SaaS platform, bringing expertise to create the best tools for users, partners, and customers.
  • Develop server-side in Go, collaborating to deliver features that remove infrastructure operation headaches.
  • Ensure the rapidly growing SaaS Platform remains scalable and built with developer empathy.

What We’re Looking For:

  • Required: 5+ years development experience, 3+ years with Go for scalable web apps, experience building Kubernetes controllers/operators at scale, and deep knowledge of systems/API design and relational databases.
  • Strong Advantage: Experience with Argo CD/Kargo/GitOps, multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments, compliance infrastructure (SOC 2, HIPAA, etc.), or operating infrastructure for platform/developer tooling companies.
  • Must live within US time zones (Pacific through Eastern), including Canada and other regions, and have a BS in Computer Science or equivalent.

Akuity

Akuity builds the Akuity Platform, an end-to-end GitOps platform that helps enterprises manage software development and deployment across hundreds or thousands of Kubernetes clusters from a single control plane. It is a growing company founded by the creators of the popular Argo CD project, with a remote culture focused on simplifying software delivery for DevOps and Platform Engineering teams.

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