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title: 'Senior Backend Engineer at Akuity'
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# Senior Backend Engineer at Akuity

- **Company:** Akuity
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-05-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/akuity/jobs/4240492009

## Job description

## About Akuity

With the move to the cloud, Kubernetes has become widely adopted by DevOps and Platform Engineering teams, but it has also added complexity. While scaling Kubernetes at Intuit, the Akuity founders started building Argo CD in order to streamline the adoption of Kubernetes. Argo CD helps developers own, understand and deploy their K8s deployments via GitOps.

Today, Argo CD is the third most popular project in the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) and is used by 70% of companies who are using Kubernetes in production. The list of Argo CD users includes companies like Intuit, BlackRock, Tesla, Major League Baseball, Peloton, and many more.

The team founded Akuity in 2021 to enable enterprises to ship software faster and more reliably with modern GitOps best practices. The Akuity Platform enables teams to manage the development and deployment across hundreds – if not thousands – of Kubernetes clusters from a single control plane. Trusted by top companies around the globe, the Akuity Platform provides the only end-to-end GitOps platform for the enterprises.

Our mission is to simplify the software delivery process so that DevOps and Platform Engineering teams can move fast, and deploy code effortlessly without the fear of breaking things.

## The Role

As one of the senior engineers at Akuity, you will work on actively building and continuously improving Akuity’s SaaS platform for our global developer community. We’re looking for developers who build tools with an empathic mindset and are comfortable cross collaborating with others. You know developers and how to build tools to solve their pain points. Beyond building developer-centric tools, you will mentor team members around engineering best practices, participate in product development, and help contribute to the company’s culture. This is an exciting position for someone to impact developer tools and the developer ecosystem globally.

## What You’ll Own

- 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.

## What We’re Looking For

Required

- 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

Strong Advantage

- Experience with Argo CD, Kargo, or GitOps-based delivery workflows
- Familiarity with multi-region, multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments
- Experience with compliance-adjacent infrastructure (SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 28000:2022, HIPAA, or PCI DSS)
- Background operating infrastructure for other platform or developer tooling companies

## Our Stack

- Kubernetes (EKS):  multi-region, enterprise-grade clusters serving Argo CD and Kargo workloads
- AWS: primary cloud provider across all production and DR environments
- Argo CD & Kargo: GitOps delivery tools we build and run ourselves
- Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry for observability
- Terraform and GitOps-driven infrastructure management
- Go (Golang): primary language for building and maintaining our internal platforms and services

## What We Offer

- 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

## About Akuity

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Akuity provides an enterprise-grade, AI-powered software delivery platform built on Argo CD and Kargo to automate GitOps, continuous promotion, and incident intelligence for cloud-native teams.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Sunnyvale, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Hong Wang (CEO), Jesse Suen (CTO), Alexander Matyushentsev (Chief Architect)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Software Development, Cloud-Native Infrastructure, DevOps, GitOps
- **Target customers**: B2B; Platform teams, SREs, and DevOps engineers at fast-moving startups to global enterprises managing Kubernetes and cloud-native applications.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To modernize the cloud-native application delivery landscape and provide a delightful end-to-end developer experience that just works." [akuity.io](https://akuity.io/company)

## Products & Services
- **Akuity Platform (Enterprise GitOps)**: A managed, enterprise-grade Argo CD implementation that eliminates the operational burden of self-hosting. It provides multi-cluster management, secure projects, auditability, and eliminates the need for upgrades, patching, and scaling. [akuity.io](https://akuity.io/)
- **Kargo (Continuous Promotion)**: An automated, auditable promotion engine that moves applications from development to staging to production without fragile CI/CD scripts. It uses artifacts and commit metadata for full traceability and adds guardrails for safe releases. [akuity.io](https://akuity.io/)
- **Akuity Intelligence (AI SRE)**: An AI-powered module that detects drift and degraded workloads, correlates logs/metrics/events in a single view, and executes automated runbooks to resolve issues, keeping teams aligned via Slack. [akuity.io](https://akuity.io/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **USD 24.5M** (Series A: $20M led by Lead Edge Capital and Decibel Partners in May 2022; Seed: $4.5M led by Decibel Partners in Oct 2021) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/akuityio)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lead Edge Capital, Decibel Partners. Advisors include Kelsey Hightower, Shay Banon (Elastic), Greg (former CEO of Mulesoft), and Mallik Mahalingam (VP at Intuit). [akuity.io](https://akuity.io/company)
- **Growth Signals**: Trusted to manage **1 million+ applications**; headcount grew **+17.4% YoY** to 43 employees; operates in 11 countries; job postings increased **+900% YoY**; customer CoreWeave cut onboarding time from days to under an hour. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/akuityio) [akuity.io](https://akuity.io/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founded by the creators of Argo CD**: The team that built the most popular open-source GitOps tool (Argo CD, a CNCF graduated project) also built Akuity, giving them unmatched expertise and credibility in the space.
- **AI-Powered SRE (Akuity Intelligence)**: A unique differentiator that acts as an AI SRE, automatically detecting drift, correlating observability data, and executing runbooks—moving beyond simple deployment to intelligent operations.
- **End-to-End Platform**: Combines continuous deployment (Argo CD), continuous promotion (Kargo), and AI-driven operations in a single managed platform, reducing tool-switching and complexity.
- **Enterprise-Grade by Default**: SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, with built-in guardrails, audit trails, and policy-driven promotions across Kubernetes, VMs, and cloud environments.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the Platform**: Continue to grow the number of managed applications (already over 1 million) and clusters, targeting larger enterprise customers.
- **Deepen AI Capabilities**: Expand Akuity Intelligence to further automate incident detection, diagnosis, and remediation, reducing the burden on SRE teams.
- **Expand Global Reach**: With operations in 11 countries and active hiring in EMEA and North America, the company is focused on building a distributed, global team.
- **Open Source Leadership**: Maintain deep ties to the Argo and Kargo open-source communities, driving innovation and adoption while monetizing the enterprise platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Work with the Creators of Argo**: Employees collaborate directly with the co-creators and core maintainers of the Argo project, offering a unique opportunity to shape the future of cloud-native delivery.
- **Remote-First Culture**: The company is remote-first, with employees across the US, EMEA, and Asia. Most roles are fully remote, though there is a physical office in Sunnyvale, CA. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/akuity)
- **High-Growth Environment**: With a 17.4% headcount increase YoY, a 900% increase in job postings, and a platform managing over 1 million applications, the company is in a rapid scaling phase, offering significant career growth opportunities. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/akuityio)
- **Open Source at the Core**: Employees work directly with the creators and maintainers of the Argo project, contributing to a major CNCF ecosystem. The company is deeply embedded in the open-source community.
- **Global & Remote**: The team spans 11 countries (US, India, China, Canada, Spain, Poland, etc.) and most roles are remote. The company offers flexibility across time zones. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/akuityio)
- **Notable Perks**: Direct access to Argo co-creators for mentorship; SOC 2 Type 2 compliant infrastructure; modern tech stack (Kubernetes, Go, Argo, Kargo, Terraform, etc.).

## Sources
1. [akuity.io](https://akuity.io/)
2. [akuity.io/company](https://akuity.io/company)
3. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/akuity](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/akuity)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/akuity)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/akuityio)

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