# Sr. Software Engineer, DevOps

**Company:** [AKASA](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/akasa)
**Location:** South San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $180k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Terraform, Kubernetes, Python, Grafana, Prometheus, Opensearch, Sentry, GitHub, CI/CD, Linux, AWS, Git
**Posted:** 2026-05-01

> Builds and scales reliable infrastructure for SaaS applications using Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitHub CI/CD. Focuses on observability with Grafana/Prometheus, automation to reduce toil, production troubleshooting, and cross-team collaboration. Requires 5+ years Python experience.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do

**Infrastructure Management:** Build, manage, and optimize infrastructure using Terraform, GitHub CI/CD, and Kubernetes.

**Monitoring & Observability:** Create visualizations and alerts that provide actionable insights using tools like Grafana, Prometheus/Mimir, OpenSearch, and Sentry.

**Automation & Reliability:** Identify manual or error-prone processes and replace them with automated, repeatable systems.

**Production Troubleshooting:** Diagnose and resolve production issues across application and infrastructure layers.

**Documentation:** Capture knowledge in runbooks, setup guides, and architecture diagrams to support operational maturity.

**Collaboration:** Partner with engineers across teams to drive adoption of DevOps and infrastructure best practices.

**Scalability Planning:** Help scale infrastructure and monitoring systems to meet growing demands.

**Incident Participation:** Participate in an on-call rotation and support incident response processes as needed.

## Skills & Qualifications

**Observability:** Experience with metrics, logs, and traces using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus/Mimir, OpenSearch, Sentry, or similar.

**Infrastructure as Code:** Proficient with Terraform, Kubernetes, and containerization tools.

**Programming Skills:** 5+ years of experience with Python.

**Linux Systems:** Comfortable working with Linux-based environments and writing shell scripts.

**Communication:** Strong collaboration skills with a focus on asynchronous, written communication.

**Documentation:** Commitment to clear, comprehensive documentation and process standardization.

**Initiative:** Self-starter mindset with a proactive approach to solving operational challenges.

**Version Control:** Skilled in Git/GitHub-based workflows.

**Nice to haves**
- Cloud Experience: AWS (preferred), GCP, or Azure cloud infrastructure management.
- Networking Fundamentals: Familiarity with TCP/IP, DNS, routing, and load balancing concepts.
- Security: Understanding of cloud and infrastructure security best practices.
- Performance Tuning: Experience tuning application or infrastructure performance in production environments.

## What We Offer
- Flexible paid time off (PTO)
- Expansive coverage for health, dental, and vision
- Employer contribution to Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
- Generous parental leave policy
- Full employee coverage for life insurance
- Home office stipend
- Cell phone/internet reimbursement
- Company-paid holidays
- 401(K) plan

## Compensation
Based on market data and other factors, the salary range for this position is $180,000-$220,000 + Equity. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.

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