Full-Time
Senior Software Engineer
Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
UpBound
51-200 employees
Cloud-based solutions for infrastructure management
Senior
Remote in USA
- 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.
- 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 provides cloud-based solutions designed to help businesses streamline their operations and manage their cloud infrastructure more effectively. Their services include managed control planes that allow platform teams to scale resources as needed, ensuring optimal performance. A key feature is the ability to auto-scale control planes to support platforms with over 1,000 Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), which means resources can adjust automatically based on demand. Upbound also offers Upbound Spaces, enabling organizations to deploy managed control planes in their own environments, which is beneficial for compliance with data privacy regulations. Unlike many competitors, Upbound focuses on simplifying the management of various cloud services and tools through centralized control. The company's goal is to empower businesses to innovate rapidly while efficiently managing their cloud resources, all through a subscription-based model.
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$67.1M
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington
Founded
2017
6 month growth
↓ -3%1 year growth
↑ 0%2 year growth
↑ 4%
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Increased adoption of Kubernetes boosts demand for Upbound's Crossplane solutions.
- Multi-cloud strategies create opportunities for Upbound's centralized control solutions.
- Rise of platform engineering increases need for Upbound's managed control planes.
What critics are saying
- Name confusion with rent-to-own company involved in a lawsuit poses reputational risk.
- Increased competition in cloud-native platforms may dilute Upbound's market share.
- Rapid technological advancements require continuous innovation, straining Upbound's resources.
What makes UpBound unique
- Upbound offers managed control planes powered by Crossplane, a unique cloud-native solution.
- The company provides auto-scaling for platforms with over 1,000 Custom Resource Definitions.
- Upbound Spaces allows deployment of managed control planes in private environments for data compliance.
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Benefits
Equity
Health care benefits
401k plan
Work from anywhere
Flexible hours & PTO
Home office stipend