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Akuity

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

Enterprise • SaaS • Cloud

Akuity is a company that provides an end-to-end GitOps platform for Kubernetes, focusing on deployment, promotion, and monitoring with tools like Argo CD, Kargo, and KubeVision. The platform extends Kubernetes APIs to enhance continuous delivery, container orchestration, and event automation. Akuity's solutions aim to simplify infrastructure management, improve security, and increase deployment efficiency, demonstrating significant time savings and improved shipping velocity for developers. Akuity also offers enterprise support for Argo, emphasizing security, compliance, and scalability for Kubernetes deployments.

📋 Description

• Own the day-to-day operational rhythm of our engineering organization • Make sure the machine runs — cycles are planned and tracked, nothing gets dropped, engineers are unblocked, and bugs and customer issues get the right attention at the right time • Be the person who knows the status of everything and follows up when things go quiet • Ensure the team is moving without micromanaging • Build trust and demonstrate range, with the opportunity to take on broader operational ownership across hiring, compliance support, infrastructure, and more • Plan and track development cycles end-to-end — nothing should be unclear or invisible • Run cycle kickoffs and retros; make sure each cycle ends with clear outcomes and the next one starts cleanly • Maintain GitHub project boards, issues, and milestones — keep them current, tidy, and useful • Flag blockers and capacity issues early, before they become misses • Own the inbound queue: bugs, customer requests, and ensure tasks are triaged, assigned, and moving • Work with the Head of Engineering to balance incoming requests against cycle commitments • Ensure nothing urgent sits unaddressed and nothing routine gets forgotten • Follow up with engineers proactively; close open loops before they become problems • Maintain a clear picture of what's in flight, what's blocked, and what's at risk • Run regular 1:1s with engineers; know how each person is doing technically and professionally • Provide coaching and mentorship; help engineers grow and do their best work • Support the hiring process: phone screens, interviews, and offer coordination • Onboard new engineers with clear 30-60-90 plans and structured ramp support • Handle difficult conversations with professionalism and care

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in software engineering, with 2+ years managing an engineering team • Solid Kubernetes experience; we build on top of it, and you need to understand it well enough to be credible with the team and with customers • Naturally organized, you run off a system, not memory, and you're relentless about follow-through • Fluent in GitHub operations: issues, PRs, project boards, labels, milestones, you keep things clean and useful • Solid communicator; engineers trust you, and stakeholders get straight answers • Enough technical depth to understand what engineers are building, give meaningful feedback on PRs, and recognize when something is going sideways • Comfortable running software development cycles in any flavor, Shape Up, Scrum, Kanban. You understand how engineering work flows • Self-directed and comfortable with ambiguity; a startup at this stage doesn't hand you a playbook • Hands-on experience with GitOps workflows or the CNCF ecosystem (Argo CD, Kargo, Flux, etc.) is a strong advantage • Familiarity with the Shape Up development methodology is a strong advantage • Experience with tools in our stack: GitHub Actions, AWS, Auth0, Stripe is a strong advantage • Exposure to security and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, ISO 45001) is a strong advantage

🏖️ Benefits

• 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