Job Overview
Location
Remote
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Data Engineer
Date Posted
January 13, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Own the end-to-end architecture of Akersystems’ next-generation, ultra-secure data platforms that process petabytes of sensitive enterprise information for Fortune-500 clients across finance, healthcare, and government verticals.
- • Lead a distributed team of 6–10 data engineers, platform SREs, and security specialists in building cloud-native pipelines that achieve sub-second latency at scale while exceeding SOC-2, FedRAMP, and ISO-27001 controls.
- • Design and evolve our proprietary encryption-in-motion and tokenisation layers that guarantee zero-knowledge data sharing between business units and external partners, cutting compliance review cycles by 40 %.
- • Architect multi-region, active-active clusters on AWS, Azure, and GCP using Terraform, Kubernetes, and custom operators to deliver 99.99 % availability and automatic fail-over in under 30 seconds.
- • Establish data-modeling standards and governance frameworks that unify disparate ERP, CRM, and IoT sources into a single semantic layer, enabling self-service analytics for 5,000+ concurrent users.
- • Champion a culture of rigorous code review, automated testing, and continuous deployment; maintain a 90 %+ unit-test coverage bar and ship to production multiple times per day with zero customer-facing incidents.
- • Partner with product management and customer success to translate complex regulatory requirements into technical epics, ensuring every feature ships with auditable security controls and clear run-books.
- • Optimise compute and storage spend through real-time cost telemetry, rightsizing algorithms, and spot-instance orchestration, delivering a 35 % reduction in annual cloud costs without performance degradation.
- • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers via weekly architecture deep-dives, pair programming, and career-ladder guidance, creating a pipeline of internal promotion and recognised technical leadership.
- • Present at internal tech talks, external conferences, and client workshops to evangelise Akersystems’ security-first approach to data engineering, strengthening our brand as the gold standard for enterprise data trust.
- • Continuously evaluate emerging technologies—delta-lake formats, confidential computing, homomorphic encryption—and run proof-of-concepts that keep our platform three years ahead of industry norms.
- • Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets that balance innovation velocity with reliability; lead blameless post-mortems that turn every incident into systemic improvement and shared learning.
🎯 Requirements
- • 8+ years building large-scale, cloud-native data pipelines in production, including deep expertise with Spark, Kafka, Airflow, and columnar storage formats such as Parquet or Iceberg.
- • Proven track record of leading engineering teams in a remote-first environment, with demonstrable experience in hiring, coaching, and performance management across multiple time zones.
- • Hands-on mastery of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or Pulumi), container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS/GKE), and CI/CD best practices that enable daily, zero-downtime releases.
- • Expert-level understanding of enterprise security frameworks—encryption at rest and in transit, RBAC/ABAC, secrets management, network micro-segmentation—and the ability to translate them into working code.
- • Nice-to-have: contributions to open-source data projects, published thought leadership on secure data architectures, or advanced degrees in computer science, information security, or related fields.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Fully remote-first culture with quarterly in-person summits in rotating global cities, all travel and accommodation covered by Akersystems.
- • Competitive base salary plus equity in a fast-growing, profitable company that has tripled ARR for three consecutive years.
- • Annual $4,000 professional-development stipend for conferences, certifications, or advanced coursework, plus five paid learning days.
- • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage for you and dependents, with 100 % of premiums paid by the company.
- • 20 days PTO plus local public holidays, a four-week paid sabbatical after four years, and a “no meeting Friday” policy to protect deep-work time.
Skills & Technologies
Senior
Remote
About Akersystems LLC
Akersystems LLC provides enterprise software solutions focused on data integration, analytics, and workflow automation for mid-market and large organizations. The company’s platform enables secure ingestion, transformation, and real-time visualization of disparate data sources, helping clients streamline operations and accelerate decision-making. Core capabilities include API management, role-based access controls, and low-code configuration tools. Founded in 2016, Akersystems serves financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing sectors from its headquarters in Denver, Colorado, and supports deployments on-premise or via major cloud providers.
