5 months ago
Base Salary
$180k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build, manage, and optimize infrastructure using Terraform, GitHub CI/CD, and Kubernetes
- Create monitoring visualizations and alerts using Grafana, Prometheus/Mimir, OpenSearch, and Sentry
- Automate manual or error-prone operational processes
- Diagnose and resolve production issues across application and infrastructure layers
- Create runbooks, setup guides, and architecture diagrams
- Partner with engineers to promote DevOps and infrastructure best practices
- Help scale infrastructure and monitoring systems for growing demand
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response processes
- Contribute hands-on engineering, systems design, automation, and technical mentorship
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience with Python
- Experience with metrics, logs, and traces using Grafana, Prometheus/Mimir, OpenSearch, Sentry, or similar tools
- Proficiency with Terraform, Kubernetes, and containerization tools
- Comfort working in Linux-based environments and writing shell scripts
- Skilled in Git and GitHub-based workflows
- Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud infrastructure is preferred
- Familiarity with TCP/IP, DNS, routing, and load balancing concepts is preferred
- Understanding of cloud and infrastructure security best practices is preferred
- Experience tuning application or infrastructure performance in production environments is preferred
- Strong collaboration, asynchronous written communication, documentation, initiative, and process-standardization skills
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off (PTO)
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- Employer contribution to Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
- Generous parental leave
- Company-paid life insurance
- Home office stipend
- Cell phone and internet reimbursement
- Company-paid holidays
- 401(k) plan
- Remote work is supported on some teams, and local R&D employees are expected to attend the South San Francisco office every Wednesday for co-working days
Tech Stack
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About AKASA
AKASA builds generative AI software that automates hospital revenue cycle and mid-cycle workflows — including prior authorization, clinical documentation integrity, inpatient coding, and denials appeals — for U.S. health systems. Its platform uses custom large language models tailored to each customer and is sold as enterprise software and services. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in South San Francisco, the company is privately held and raised a Series C in 2022.