[Hiring] Senior DevOps Engineer @Akuity

Akuity is a Sunnyvale, CA-based business founded by Argo co-creators Hong Wang, Jesse Suen, and Alexander Matyushentsev. The three of them were founding engineers at Applatix, which open-sourced the Argo project in 2017. After Applatix's acquisition by Intuit in 2018, Argo exploded in growth with the additions of Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, & Argo Events and was subsequently accepted as a CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) graduated project. Today, Argo has 30K+ GitHub stars, is one of the fastest-growing CNCF projects with over 6,000 contributors, and is trusted by hundreds of enterprises, including Adobe, Tesla, PayPal, Capital One, and Peloton to automate their application delivery on Kubernetes.

Following Argo's strong adoption, Akuity was formed to help companies reliably deploy Argo at scale by offering enterprise support and functionality. As of November 2024, Akuity has raised $25 million from leading technology investors, Lead Edge Capital & Decibel Partners. The business is experiencing tremendous growth and remains committed to Open Source; they will invest in what's needed to foster the project's growth. This includes continuing their contributions to the project, supporting users with their issues, facilitating discussions and meetings, and promoting Argo every chance they get. 

This is going to be a true DevOps role, where half of your time will be spent writing software for our product (Akuity Platform) and the other half will be helping us maintain the infrastructure for the platform. This would be perfect for the Golang developer who likes to get their hands dirty and also play with Linux, Containers, Kubernetes, Networking, Security, AWS, Postgresql, and other Cloud native technologies.

• Design, build, test, deploy, and improve Akutiy's SaaS platform. Use your expertise and commitment to excellence to build the best developer 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. 
• Empower teams to provide reliable systems. Facilitate the operation of service level objectives (SLO), on-call rotations, and blameless post-mortems.
• Help with infrastructure maintenance and cloud cost optimization.
• Orchestrate cloud resources from different cloud providers to build a reliable and scalable platform

• Live in India
• Exceptional communication skills and a collaborative mindset with a passion for developer experience
• A passion for working on complex technical products, particularly in the realm of SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS. 
• Deep knowledge of systems design, API design, and infrastructure.
• A genuine interest in designing a great end-to-end developer experience while using Akuity's products. 
• A BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Minimum qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience developing scalable web applications using Golang
• Administration experience in container orchestration platforms, preferably using Kubernetes, and demonstrated by the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certificate
• Experience in observability (monitoring, logging, and tracing) for cloud-based environments, using CNCF tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos, Jaeger, or SaaS tools such as Datadog
• Proficiency in operating public cloud services using infrastructure-as-code tools like Crossplane, Terraform or CloudFormation
• Expertise in maintaining self-service CI/CD platforms and supporting techniques like Trunk-Based development, GitOps-based deployments, or automated canary releases
• Experience with relational databases (Postgres/MySQL)
• Business-level communication in English

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Strong knowledge of fundamental AWS services with a certification as an AWS Associate or above
• Passion for staying up-to-date with the latest industry topics in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), DevOps, and the AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Knowledge of common application architecture patterns: distributed systems, microservices, asynchronous processing, event-driven systems, and others
• Experience building Kubernetes controllers or operators at scale with Golang in AWS, GCP, Azure, or On-prem. 
• Experience with Kubernetes core systems and APIs

Akuity is a staunch proponent of open-source software (OSS). We believe it is the best method of impactful and lasting software development. We also recognize that at a certain stage in a project's maturity, OSS benefits from commercial backing to help take it to the next level. We started Akuity to advocate for the Argo project, share our knowledge and deep expertise of its capabilities, and become a trusted voice for its users.

Akuity's culture is still developing, but we already strongly value humility, authenticity, and diversity. We want to work with people of different backgrounds and paths in life, and we trust our team members to take responsibility, share ownership, and work for one another. We seek collaborative, inquisitive, and dedicated individuals to join our team.

Akuity is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.