
Akamas is the autonomous optimization platform that maximizes application performance, service reliability, and cloud cost savings. Akamas helps performance engineers, developers, DevOps, platform engineers, and SREs be more productive, prevent incidents, and achieve aggressive optimization goals at enterprise scale. Unlike infrastructure-focused cloud optimization tools, Akamas is application-aware, meaning that it optimizes full-stack configurations, taking into account application performance and reliability signals, SLOs, and user-defined constraints. With support for both continuous optimization of live applications in production environments, and automated performance tuning of applications in test/pre-production, Akamas uses reinforcement learning AI, observability data, and safety constraints to autonomously identify and apply the best system configurations to achieve cost, performance, and reliability goals. Founded by veterans in performance engineering, Akamas counts AWS, Dynatrace, Google Cloud, Gremlin, Mia-Platform, Micro Focus, RedHat, Tricentis, and Splunk among its technology partners. Akamas customers include leading financial services, SaaS software, and online consumer services brands. Akamas is headquartered in Milan, with offices in Boston, Los Angeles, and Singapore.

Akamas is the autonomous optimization platform that maximizes application performance, service reliability, and cloud cost savings. Akamas helps performance engineers, developers, DevOps, platform engineers, and SREs be more productive, prevent incidents, and achieve aggressive optimization goals at enterprise scale. Unlike infrastructure-focused cloud optimization tools, Akamas is application-aware, meaning that it optimizes full-stack configurations, taking into account application performance and reliability signals, SLOs, and user-defined constraints. With support for both continuous optimization of live applications in production environments, and automated performance tuning of applications in test/pre-production, Akamas uses reinforcement learning AI, observability data, and safety constraints to autonomously identify and apply the best system configurations to achieve cost, performance, and reliability goals. Founded by veterans in performance engineering, Akamas counts AWS, Dynatrace, Google Cloud, Gremlin, Mia-Platform, Micro Focus, RedHat, Tricentis, and Splunk among its technology partners. Akamas customers include leading financial services, SaaS software, and online consumer services brands. Akamas is headquartered in Milan, with offices in Boston, Los Angeles, and Singapore.
What they do: AI-driven, application-aware autonomous optimization for performance, reliability, and cloud cost savings
Founded: 2019 (spin-off of Moviri)
Headquarters: Milan, Italy
Recent funding: Seed / Early VC — $10M announced Feb 11, 2025 (led by United Ventures)
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Application performance engineering, reliability engineering, and cloud cost optimization
2019
Software Development
$10M
First institutional funding round; reported amounts in euros ~€9.6–9.7M in some reports.
“Raised $10M to support US expansion (Boston), product development for cloud/Kubernetes optimization, with Moviri retaining a strategic minority position”
We’re redefining performance engineering with AI - join us!
Akamas is a software platform that reshapes IT performance optimization through AI, automation, and the domain expertise we’ve developed by working with some of the most demanding enterprise customers across the world, achieving unprecedented levels of performance, efficiency, and cost savings.
About the role
We are looking for a US-based Sales Engineer who can combine deep technical expertise with customer-facing experience.
In this role, you will support the US sales team in pre-sales activities, deliver technical guidance to prospective customers, and lead proof-of-concept projects.
In the initial phase, you will also cover key Customer Success responsibilities, acting as the first technical point of contact for early US customers, helping them validate solutions, adopt Akamas effectively, and realize tangible value from the platform.
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Why Akamas
Join Our Team and Make a Real Impact: Last year, we secured a $10 million investment from United Ventures, a leading venture capital firm investing in high-growth technology companies. This funding fuels our next stage of innovation and global expansion. We’re on the lookout for dynamic individuals who want to make a significant impact from day one and be part of a rapidly scaling tech company.
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