Staff Platform Engineer

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51-200 employees

Cloud control plane solutions for stable, self-service infrastructure

Company Overview

Upbound is a pioneering company in the cloud computing industry, democratizing the control plane to enhance stability, security, and productivity for cloud engineers. The company's creation, Crossplane, empowers developers with self-service capabilities, reducing dependency on cloud teams and fostering independent work. With substantial backing from reputable investors such as GV, Altimeter Capital, and Intel Capital, Upbound's industry leadership is evident in its ability to raise $69M in funding and its commitment to improving cloud infrastructure.

B2B

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$77M

Founded

2017

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington

Growth & Insights

Headcount

6 month growth

↓ -3%

1 year growth

↑ 8%

2 year growth

↑ 131%

Locations

Remote

Experience Level

Entry

Junior

Mid

Senior

Expert

Desired Skills

AWS

Data Structures & Algorithms

Google Cloud Platform

Microsoft Azure

Terraform

Kubernetes

CategoriesNew

Software Engineering

Requirements

8+ years of software engineering experience writing high quality, reliable, and maintainable software
2+ years of working experience with Kubernetes and its internals
Hands-on programming experience with Go
Worked in teams that have deeply internalized site reliability engineering philosophies in their culture, environments, and processes
You are productive and familiar with public cloud infrastructure: AWS, Azure, and GCP
Advanced knowledge and experience with distributed systems design, principals, algorithms, and trade-offs
Managed production Kubernetes deployments or have been responsible for deploying/managing workloads running on Kubernetes in production
Architected and deployed highly scaled and reliable services, solutions, and infrastructure in multiple major cloud providers
Incorporated modern operational and application delivery tools and methodologies into your production deployment workflows, like those from HashiCorp (e.g. Terraform), CI/CD, IaC, and GitOps
Have full software lifecycle experience of successfully taking multiple projects from early designs to production deployment

Responsibilities

Serve as a senior technical leader and contributor to Upbound's Platforms
Take ownership of business critical features and product innovations to deliver new features that will delight and amaze our customers
Support the full project lifecycle - discovery, analysis, architecture, design, documentation, building, migration, automation, and production-readiness
Evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms, including frameworks and technology stacks for delivering Upbound products
Collaborate with the development teams to assess and recommend technologies that support company organizational needs
Take ownership of the health and reliability of the live production service and infrastructure, ensuring that SLOs/SLAs are consistently met
Be entrusted to make technology decisions for the business, procuring the right technology and designing and implementing a self-service solution for the teams that consume Upbound infrastructure
Be a contributor to the Kubernetes/Crossplane platform that Upbound Cloud is built on
Communicate thoughtful and thorough designs and architecture for new initiatives
Deliver high quality, well tested, and reliable functionality and services to production environments
Demonstrate a strong operational understanding of service behavior and trade-offs in production with regards to scale, reliability, security, availability, etc
Troubleshoot and problem-solve to remediate production issues with your (and related) services
Create clever solutions to complex problems by designing, building, and automating critical portions of the Upbound Cloud service infrastructure
Report and fix bugs in private and public projects

Upbound is the company behind Crossplane, the open source project which started the control plane revolution in the cloud native community. Upbound helps companies rise above the clouds with our Crossplane powered Universal Cloud Platform. With Upbound you get universal real-time visibility into all of your infrastructure environments, the same API centric approach Kubernetes pioneered for managing infrastructure and policies, and self service infrastructure capabilities.

As a Staff Platform Engineer, you’ll build, deploy, and operate Upbound’s Internal Platform. This consists of both our internal developer platform and our cloud control planes that serve as the foundation of the Upbound Cloud SaaS offering. Our control planes are based on the open source Crossplane (https://crossplane.io/) project, the open and cloud native control plane based on Kubernetes, which was created by Upbound and is now a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox project.

In this role, you will...

Serve as a senior technical leader and contributor to Upbound’s Platforms
Take ownership of business critical features and product innovations to deliver new features that will delight and amaze our customers
Support the full project lifecycle - discovery, analysis, architecture, design, documentation, building, migration, automation, and production-readiness
Evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms, including frameworks and technology stacks for delivering Upbound products
Collaborate with the development teams to assess and recommend technologies that support company organizational needs
Take ownership of the health and reliability of the live production service and infrastructure, ensuring that SLOs/SLAs are consistently met
Be entrusted to make technology decisions for the business, procuring the right technology and designing and implementing a self-service solution for the teams that consume Upbound infrastructure
Be a contributor to the Kubernetes/Crossplane platform that Upbound Cloud is built on
Communicate thoughtful and thorough designs and architecture for new initiatives
Deliver high quality, well tested, and reliable functionality and services to production environments
Demonstrate a strong operational understanding of service behavior and trade-offs in production with regards to scale, reliability, security, availability, etc.
Troubleshoot and problem-solve to remediate production issues with your (and related) services
Create clever solutions to complex problems by designing, building, and automating critical portions of the Upbound Cloud service infrastructure
Report and fix bugs in private and public projects.

You are a good fit if you have...

8+ years of software engineering experience writing high quality, reliable, and maintainable software
2+ years of working experience with Kubernetes and its internals.
Hands-on programming experience with Go
Worked in teams that have deeply internalized site reliability engineering philosophies in their culture, environments, and processes
You are productive and familiar with public cloud infrastructure: AWS, Azure, and GCP
Advanced knowledge and experience with distributed systems design, principals, algorithms, and trade-offs
Managed production Kubernetes deployments or have been responsible for deploying/managing workloads running on Kubernetes in production
Architected and deployed highly scaled and reliable services, solutions, and infrastructure in multiple major cloud providers
Incorporated modern operational and application delivery tools and methodologies into your production deployment workflows, like those from HashiCorp (e.g. Terraform), CI/CD, IaC, and GitOps
Have full software lifecycle experience of successfully taking multiple projects from early designs to production deployment

While building amazing technology is important, Upbound has an intense commitment to building a great culture. With company values like Be Accountable, Demonstrate Craftsmanship, Champion the Customer, Collaborate Decisively, Care For Our Communities, Act as an Owner and Engage Vulnerability; you’ll find yourself in a place where learning, growth, impact, and fun finally intersect. Similar to the open source community we serve, we look to each other to constantly iterate and improve on what we’re building and you will be a key contributor in this effort.

We encourage people of all backgrounds, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, or any other descriptors that make you uniquely you, to apply with enthusiasm and confidence. Upbound is a place where you can be 100% comfortable being you.