Akuity Staff Engineer at Akuity responsible for building and improving the SaaS platform for global developers. Provides technical leadership, mentors engineers, and drives architectural decisions.
Responsibilities
As a Staff Engineer at Akuity, you will play a key technical leadership role in building and continuously improving Akuity’s SaaS platform for our global developer community. You’ll work closely with engineers, designers, and product partners to solve complex developer and infrastructure challenges, while driving technical direction and architectural decisions. You’ll also mentor engineers, promote engineering best practices, and help shape the technical culture of the company. This is an exciting opportunity to have a broad impact on developer tools and the developer ecosystem globally.
Design, build, test, and improve Akuity’s SaaS platform. You bring 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.
Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across complex, high-impact projects and initiatives.
Mentor engineers and help drive engineering best practices across the organization.
Make sure that as our SaaS Platform rapidly grows, it remains scalable and built with developer empathy.
Qualification
7+ years of development experienceDeep knowledge of systems design
Required
7+ years of development experience.
4+ 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.
Demonstrated experience leading the architecture and technical direction of complex, distributed systems.
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.
Proven ability to influence technical decisions across teams and work effectively in a highly collaborative environment.
A BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Live within US time zones (Pacific through Eastern), including Canada and other regions.
