Senior SRE - Remote, High-Impact Infra

Akka; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 104,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health benefits

Professional development

Remote-friendly

Inclusive culture

Work-life balance

Challenging work

Bright minds

Job summary

Akka is seeking a staff-level Site Reliability Engineer to help run and evolve our platform infrastructure. You’ll contribute to architecture decisions for deployment, observability, and security, and help shape team standards.

This is not a watch-keeping role; you will be contributing meaningfully within your first weeks. The core platform uses Kubernetes operators written in Go, with Crossplane, Flux, Terraform, and managed Postgres across cloud regions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering
• Experience operating Kubernetes controllers built on controller-runtime in production
• Terraform and Crossplane in production with Flux and Kustomize
• Operating managed Postgres in production with point-in-time restore and version upgrades
• Observability at scale with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and long-term metrics stores
• Securing Kubernetes clusters, service mesh, and secrets management via cloud KMS
• Production on-call experience and incident ownership
• Skilled use of LLMs as a tool to sharpen work, not autopilot
• Strong written communication

Responsibilities

• Help run and evolve the platform infrastructure
• Contribute to architecture decisions for deployment, observability, and security
• Shape team standards and practices, ensuring reliable operations
• Work hands-on with Kubernetes operators and Go-based controllers
• Read logs and diagnose root causes using operator status and CRDs
• Maintain production Postgres across cloud regions with minimal downtime

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Controller-runtime

Terraform

Crossplane

AWS

Azure

GCP

OpenTelemetry

On-call

LLMs

Communication

Tools

Flux

Kustomize

Postgres

Job description

Akka is seeking a staff-level Site Reliability Engineer to help run and evolve our platform infrastructure. You’ll contribute to architecture decisions for deployment, observability, and security, and help shape team standards.

This is not a watch-keeping role; you will be contributing meaningfully within your first weeks. The core platform uses Kubernetes operators written in Go, with Crossplane, Flux, Terraform, and managed Postgres across cloud regions.