The Orchestration Team at Upbound is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help us build the Universal Cloud Platform.You will help us scale the Universal Cloud Platform to reliably support thousands of control planes, while also adding features like disaster recovery, policy management, identity provider integration, and much more. Our team is expanding, and this is the perfect opportunity for you to make a significant engineering impact. 

Our team is expanding, and this role provides you the opportunity to make a significant engineering impact.  As a Staff Software Engineer on the team you’ll enjoy the solid foundation we’ve built. Your collaborative nature combined with an interest in improving and growing others will help the team continue developing their capabilities and skills.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Build Upbound’s Universal Cloud Platform. 
• Contribute to Upbound’s open-source projects, especially Crossplane.
• Taking ownership of features in high demand by Upbound’s customers to deliver new functionality that will delight and amaze our users.
• Collaborate through thoughtful and thorough design documents for new initiatives.
• Supporting 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.
• Writing and maintaining Go code that interfaces with the Kubernetes API, such as operators, controllers, add-ons, etc.
• Deploying and managing our Kubernetes services with GitOps.
• Authoring documentation, user guides, and blog posts to support and promote new features that you release.

• Participating in on-call to support Upbound Cloud Platform. 

We would love to hear from you if:

• You have experience as a Software Engineer building cloud services. 
• You have experience with Kubernetes.
• You take responsibility and ownership for solving problems even if they are outside your lane. 
• You demonstrate excellence in your work, constantly trying to improve your skills. 
• You have empathy for customers and keep them in mind as you build solutions. 
• You 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. 

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