Platform Engineer

Akur8 is a fast-growing InsurTech scale-up on a mission to modernize how insurers assess, price, and manage risk.

Our next-generation SaaS platform combines transparent machine learning, predictive analytics, and smart product design to turn complex insurance workflows into scalable, data-driven systems.

Powered by expert engineering, data, product, and actuarial teams, Akur8 enables insurers to model risk up to 10x faster while maintaining transparency, explainability, and regulatory trust.

As our product suite expands, we are building an end-to-end platform supporting pricing, reserving, and forward-looking risk decisions — helping insurers operate efficiently in a complex environment.

Recognized globally, Akur8 has been featured in:

• CB Insights’ Insurtech 50 (2025)

• CNBC’s InsurTech Top 150 (2025)

• InsurTech100 Global Insurtech Top 100 (2025)

• Professional Equality Index 97/100 (2025)
  

With 40+ nationalities across 8 global offices, we serve 320+ clients across 4 continents while maintaining a strong engineering and product culture.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, fostering an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives help shape better products and decisions.

Akur8 is looking for a motivated, curious, and passionate Platform Engineer to join our Platform Operations team in Paris.

You will play a key role in accelerating the application lifecycle by building internal platform capabilities (tools, paved roads, and reusable abstractions) that make it easy for feature teams to ship reliably and safely, in a dynamic and international environment and collaborating daily with product/R&D teams to continuously improve developer experience, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Your regular responsibilities shall include but are not limited to :

Developer Enablement & Internal Tooling :

• Fluidify the lifecycle of our applications by designing and developing internal tools, CLIs, and abstractions that reduce cognitive load and operational friction for feature teams.

• Contribute to pragmatic automation and self-service workflows, leveraging Python, Go, or Rust depending on the use case (performance, safety, maintainability).

Infrastructure as Software (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform) :

• Pilot our AWS environments (laying the foundations of our infrastructure and maintaining the infra supporting our products) and our Kubernetes clusters, managed through Terraform with rigorous engineering standards (versioning, reviews, testing)

• Ensure our platform remains secure, scalable, and consistent across environments, while keeping infrastructure changes auditable and reproducible.

Scale & FinOps for ML Workloads :

• Because Akur8’s platform must support massive ML compute workloads, continuously optimize the environment to keep the right balance between performance, scalability, and cost control. This includes capacity planning, right-sizing, workload optimization strategies (where relevant), and building the right visibility to make cost a first-class engineering signal.

Cloud Native & SRE Culture :

• Help spread Cloud Native culture and SRE practices across feature teams observability, CI/CD, and reliability habits that scale.

• Share knowledge of the platform, clarify processes, and contribute to operational excellence through documentation, best practices, and coaching. The goal: enable teams to own their services with confidence while meeting reliability targets.

Technical stack (indicative)

Languages: Python, Jav a, Go, Rust

Cloud provider and orchestration: AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker

IaC: Terraform, Ansible

CI/CD and Obs : GitHub Action, ArgoCD, Datadog

We are looking for innovative and rigorous minds that have a solid technical background and track record of helping their team grow.

For this key role within our IT Operation Team, we’re looking for a candidate :

• With a minimum of 2 years of professional experience in Software Development

• Strong knowledge of AWS cloud environment and infrastructure is mandatory

• With experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub, and automation workflows

• Proficient in both English and French, with the ability to communicate effectively in professional settings in both languages as the candidate will work with teams distributed across NA/EU/JP

• Strong programming skills (Python, Java, Go etc.)

• Motivated, curious and open-minded who will contribute to the strong team culture.

• Who will be willing to participate in on-call rotations

Important: You must possess an employment status: French or Schengen area nationality or a ‘carte de séjour’ that will allow you to work from our Paris office. We are equally open to the visa sponsorship of non-EU candidates as long as they are already in possession of their final diploma / attestation of their final academic results.

As a newcomer, you'll be joining a diverse, highly skilled and motivated team, with a strong Tech DNA, colleagues that are eager to share their knowledge and passion.

We care about strong teamwork and a positive day-to-day environment. The team regularly connects through optional activities such as team lunches, sports, karaoke, or occasional after-work gatherings.

In addition to this, we will provide you with:

• Competitive salary + annual bonus

• Hybrid office/home working policy

• 25 days of paid holidays + RTT

• Gym membership with Gymlib

• Excellent health insurance (including spouse and family coverage) with Alan

• Swile lunch vouchers (12,10€)

• Public transportation reimbursement (75%) + sustainable mobility allowance

• IT equipment allowance (500€)

• Sponsored crèche access with Babilou

• Free cafeteria with fresh fruit, drinks and snacks

• Great office in the heart of the 9th arrondissement of Paris