Full-Time

Staff Software Engineer

Backend Services

Confirmed live in the last 24 hours

UpBound

UpBound

51-200 employees

Cloud-based solutions for infrastructure management

Enterprise Software
Cybersecurity

Senior, Expert

Remote in USA

Category
Backend Engineering
Software Engineering
Required Skills
Kubernetes
Go
Requirements
  • Have experience building and operating Go-based microservice distributed system architectures and act as an owner-operator for your code.
  • Comfortable with Kubernetes.
  • Take responsibility and ownership for solving problems even if they are outside your lane.
  • Demonstrate excellence in your work, constantly trying to improve your skills.
  • Have empathy for customers and keep them in mind as you build solutions.
  • Realize the importance of clear communication and effective collaboration to work as a team and deliver great results.
  • You help create a safe environment where everyone can contribute, learn from failures, and help each other.
Responsibilities
  • Actively build Upbound Cloud.
  • Take ownership of building features in high demand by Upbound’s customers and deliver new functionality that will delight and amaze our users.
  • Communicate through thoughtful and thorough design documents for new initiatives.
  • Support the full project lifecycle for highly scalable and reliable services running in a cloud environment – discovery, analysis, architecture, design, review, documentation, building, migration, automation, deployment, production-readiness, and support.
  • Write and maintain Go code that interfaces with the Kubernetes API, such as operators, controllers, add-ons, etc.
  • Deploy and manage our Kubernetes services.
  • Author documentation, user guides, and blog posts to support and promote new features that you release.
  • Participating in on-call to support Upbound Cloud.

Upbound offers cloud-based solutions that help businesses manage their cloud infrastructure more efficiently. Their services include managed control planes that allow platform teams to scale resources and maintain centralized control over various cloud services. A unique feature is the auto-scaling capability for platforms with over 1,000 Custom Resource Definitions, ensuring optimal performance. Upbound's goal is to empower organizations to innovate rapidly while complying with data privacy regulations through their subscription-based model.

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$67.1M

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington

Founded

2017

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

-9%

1 year growth

-14%

2 year growth

-7%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Increased demand for cloud-native solutions boosts Crossplane adoption.
  • Rise of platform engineering positions Upbound's control plane as essential for DevOps teams.
  • Multi-cloud strategies increase need for centralized control solutions like Upbound's.

What critics are saying

  • Brand confusion due to Upbound's association with a rent-to-own firm facing legal issues.
  • Increased competition from other cloud-native platform providers with enhanced features.
  • Rapid technological advancements may require costly updates to remain competitive.

What makes UpBound unique

  • Upbound democratizes control planes, a key component in cloud computing.
  • The company offers auto-scaling for platforms with over 1,000 Custom Resource Definitions.
  • Upbound Spaces allows deployment of managed control planes in secure, self-hosted environments.

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Benefits

Equity

Health care benefits

401k plan

Work from anywhere

Flexible hours & PTO

Home office stipend