Staff Engineer, SaaS Platform (Remote • Equity)

Akuity Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Fully remote

Home office stipend

Flexible time off

Job summary

Akuity Inc. is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the design and evolution of its SaaS platform. You will work with engineers, designers, and product partners to solve complex developer and infrastructure challenges while shaping technical direction and architecture.

You will mentor engineers, promote best practices, and help build a scalable system that serves a global developer community. This role emphasizes Go on the server side and strong distributed systems expertise in a fully remote setup.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of development experience.
• 4+ years of experience developing scalable web applications using Golang.
• Experience building Kubernetes controllers or operators at scale in AWS, GCP, Azure, or On‑prem.
• Strong focus on SaaS/IaaS/PaaS and developer tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and improve Akuity’s SaaS platform.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across complex projects.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices.
• Ensure scalability and developer empathy as the platform grows.

Skills

Go (Golang)

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

API design

Mentoring

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Job description

Akuity Inc. is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the design and evolution of its SaaS platform. You will work with engineers, designers, and product partners to solve complex developer and infrastructure challenges while shaping technical direction and architecture.

You will mentor engineers, promote best practices, and help build a scalable system that serves a global developer community. This role emphasizes Go on the server side and strong distributed systems expertise in a fully remote setup.