Senior Backend Engineer
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The 20-second read
- Experience
- 5+ years required
- Where you can live
- US only
- Skills and tools
- golang, aws, gcp, azure, kubernetes, terraform
- Time zone
- US time zones
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Job details
- Where you can work
- United States
- Employment type
- Not stated by the employer
- Advertised pay
- Not stated by the employer
- Experience
- 5+ years required
- Employer publication date
- 5 May 2026
- First recorded by Psst
- 12 October 2026
- Last checked at the source
- 10 November 2026
About the job
About the company
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 company 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 the company in 2021 to enable enterprises to ship software faster and more reliably with modern GitOps best practices. The company 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 company 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 the company, you will work on actively building and continuously improving the company’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 the company’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
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