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Staff Platform Engineer - Remote

Platform Engineer • Principal • Remote • Full-time • European Union EU/EMEA

Aktos is looking for a Staff Platform Engineer (80% backend engineering + 20% DevOps/SRE) to help build the operating system powering the $18B credit collections industry, combining AWS infrastructure work with Python backend development.

Responsibilities

  • ▹Maintain AWS infrastructure
  • ▹Scalable and maintainable backend feature development (Python)
  • ▹Scalable and maintainable API/SFTP integrations
  • ▹Monitor and troubleshoot the Postgres DB (indexes, partitioning/sharding)
  • ▹Maintain developer environments
  • ▹Manage CI pipelines and runners
  • ▹Set up and manage alerting systems
  • ▹Provide on-call support and guidance to other developers

Requirements

  • ▹Python/Django expertise (Django required)
  • ▹Python + DB performance optimization
  • ▹API/SFTP integrations experience
  • ▹Feature development experience
  • ▹Comfortable with AWS, maintaining EKS (Kubernetes on AWS)
  • ▹Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Github Actions, AWS, Postgres, Redis
  • ▹5+ years of professional software development experience
  • ▹2+ years of professional SRE/DevOps experience
  • ▹Experience maintaining/enhancing a Kubernetes cluster via IaC (Terraform preferred)
  • ▹Strong RDBMS understanding (Postgres preferred)
  • ▹In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with AWS

Soft skills

Solid engineering fundamentalsProduct intuition and user empathyStrong work ethic, end-to-end ownership mentality

What we offer

  • ▹Competitive salary with employee stock options, bonus, and 401K access
  • ▹Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • ▹Remote-first company

About the company

Aktos is a seed-stage vertical SaaS fintech startup building the operating system powering the $18B credit collections industry; founders came from companies such as Zenefits, TikTok, Meta, LinkedIn, Google, Apple, Amazon, WeWork, and Flatiron Health.

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