Site Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Akka is the platform for building and running AI agents and distributed systems at scale. Our actor-model runtime powers agent and workflow systems for companies like Manulife, John Deere, Capital One, and CERN. We also run Akka Automated Operations, our managed platform for customer workloads on dedicated, BYOC, and BYOK8s deployments, backed by extensive availability guarantees and certifications.
• We're hiring staff-level SREs to help run and evolve that infrastructure, working alongside the senior engineers already on the team. You'll contribute to architecture decisions for how we deploy, observe, and secure the platform, and help shape the standards the team builds against. It's not a team that watches someone else's dashboards, and it's not a role with a long runway: we expect you to be contributing meaningfully within your first few weeks.
• The core of the platform is a set of Kubernetes operators written in Go. Every customer service, route, datastore, secret, and region flows through a reconciler, and when something goes wrong in production the fix usually starts with an operator's logs and a custom resource's status. Customer clusters on AWS, Azure, and GCP are provisioned with Crossplane compositions and delivered with Flux; with Terraform at the core. Each region runs managed Postgres that both our control plane and customer workloads depend on. Everything we run is defined and changed through code.
• Operating managed Postgres (RDS, Cloud SQL, or Azure Flexible Server) in production, point-in-time restore, major-version upgrades, and moving a live database between instances inside a bounded outage window.
• Securing Kubernetes clusters, service mesh (Linkerd or similar), OIDC/workload identity, mTLS, cert-manager for PKI including trust-anchor rotation, and secrets management via cloud KMS.
• Teleport or a similar access plane, managed as code.

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