Sr/Staff Platform Engineer — Aktos (via Remotesome)

About Aktos

Aktos is building the operating system to power the ARM (Accounts Receivable Management) industry. The ARM industry is still rife with inefficient workflows, compliance challenges, and outdated payment systems. Aktos is building modern software to change that.

About this role

As we build the foundation for SRE at Aktos, this person will play a critical role in shaping our infrastructure and operational excellence in addition to being a full backend software engineer. Leveraging battle-tested technologies such as Kubernetes, Postgres, and AWS, they will go beyond managing infrastructure to build tools that enable our engineers to create performant, scalable, and resilient applications. However, since we are a small team, we will expect them to be a fully functioning backend software engineer as well. They will be 70% backend engineer and 30% SRE (they need to be able to do backend feature work and integrations).

Backend Skills

• Python/Django (Django required)

• Python + DB Performance optimization [Required]

• API / SFTP Integrations (must have experience)

• Feature Development experience

DevOps/SRE Skills

• Will need to be comfortable with AWS, Maintaining EKS (Kubernetes on AWS).

• Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Github Actions, AWS, Postgres, Redis.

• They don’t need to have DevOps/SRE title, but from their resume they should have some of the DevOps keywords listed right above

  • A lot of early startups don’t have dedicated SREs but a senior BE architect/engineer is usually responsible for the DevOps work

Comfortable with

• Scalable & Maintainable Backend Feature Development [Experience is Required]

• Scalable & Maintainable API/SFTP Integrations [Experience is Required]

• Monitoring and troubleshooting Postgres DB (adding/removing indexes, partitioning/sharding)

• Maintaining developer environments.

• Managing CI pipelines and runners.

• Setting up and managing alerting systems.

• Providing on-call support and guidance to other developers to triage issues.

Impact and Expectations

• Contribute to key performance indicators (KPIs) such as system uptime, performance metrics, and compliance standards.

• Make a significant impact within the first 6-12 months by leading initiatives to improve infrastructure and operational practices.

Required Skills

• Python — Advanced
• Django — Advanced
• DB Performance Optimization — Advanced
• API Integrations — Advanced
• Feature Development Experience — Intermediate
• AWS — Intermediate
• Kubernetes — Intermediate
• React.js — Advanced
• Redux — Advanced
• RTK Query — Advanced

Compensation

$80K – $130K/year

Location: Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Uruguay

Timezone: UTC-8 to UTC-3