Remove complexity, add velocity.
Senior Backend Engineer
Location
California
Posted
20 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer
Akuity
• Design, build, test, and improve Akutiy’s SaaS platform. You bring your expertise and commitment to excellence to build the best developers tools for our users, partners, and customers. • Develop in Go on the server-side. • Collaborate with designers and engineers to design, implement, and deliver features that remove the headaches of infrastructure operations for our users. • Make sure that as our SaaS Platform rapidly grows, it remains scalable and built with developer empathy.
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of development experience.
- 3+ years of experience developing scalable web applications using Golang
- Has experience building Kubernetes controllers or operators at scale in AWS, GCP, Azure, or On-prem.
- A passion for working on complex technical products, particularly in the realm of SaaS, IaaS, PaaS.
- Deep knowledge of systems design, API design, and infrastructure.
- Experienced with relational databases (Postgres/MySQL)
- A genuine interest in designing a great end-to-end developer experience while using Akuity’s products.
- Exceptional communication skills and a collaborative mindset with a passion for developer experience
- A BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Live within US time zones (Pacific through Eastern), including Canada and other regions
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, commensurate with experience
- Equity participation in a well-funded, growing company
- Fully remote: work from anywhere within US time zones (Pacific through Eastern), including Canada and other regions
- Home office stipend and equipment budget
- Flexible time off and a culture that respects it
- Work directly with the engineers who built Argo CD and Kargo; you'll learn a lot here
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