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Full-Time

Senior Software Engineer

Posted on 9/23/2024

UpBound

51-200 employees

Cloud-based solutions for infrastructure management

Enterprise Software

Cybersecurity

Senior

Remote in USA

Category

Backend Engineering

Software Engineering

Required Skills

Kubernetes

Microservices

Go

You match the following UpBound's candidate preferences

Employers are more likely to interview you if you match these preferences:

Degree

Experience

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.

The Cloud Services team at Upbound is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help us build our flagship SaaS offering, Upbound Cloud. As part of the Cloud Services team, you will help us scale Upbound to reliably support thousands of control planes, while also adding enterprise features like Git integration, audit logs, disaster recovery, and much more. Our team is expanding, and this is the perfect opportunity for you to make a significant engineering impact.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

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.

We would love to hear from you if you:

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.

#LI-REMOTE

UpBound

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Upbound offers cloud-based solutions that help businesses manage their cloud infrastructure more efficiently. Their services include managed control planes that can auto-scale based on demand, allowing for optimal performance and centralized control of various cloud services. Upbound differentiates itself by enabling organizations to deploy managed control planes in their own environments, which aids in data privacy compliance. The company's goal is to empower businesses to innovate quickly while maintaining effective infrastructure management through a subscription-based model.

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$67.1M

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington

Founded

2017

Growth & Insights

Headcount

6 month growth

↓ -5%

1 year growth

↓ -3%

2 year growth

↓ -1%

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

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