Platform Engineer at Upbound - Job Posting

Are you ready to shape the future of cloud-native infrastructure alongside the creators of Crossplane? At Upbound, we are building the foundation of the Upbound Cloud SaaS offering, and we are looking for a talented individual to help us evolve our internal developer platform and cloud control planes. If you are passionate about open source and want to work on a project that is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox initiative, we would love to have you on our team.

What you bring

As a Senior Platform Engineer working in a full-time capacity, you will be a key contributor to our core platforms. This is a remote position available to candidates anywhere. Your primary focus will be to build, deploy, and maintain the systems that power our cloud services using Go, Kubernetes, and various cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP. Your daily work will center on these core responsibilities:

• Taking full ownership of business-critical features and product innovations to ensure our customers have a seamless experience.
• Managing the complete project lifecycle, from initial discovery and architecture to production-readiness and ongoing automation.
• Ensuring the health and reliability of our live production services by maintaining strict adherence to our SLOs and SLAs.

Requirements

We are looking for a seasoned engineer who brings at least six years of professional software development experience. You should have a deep understanding of distributed systems and at least two years of hands-on experience working with Kubernetes internals. Proficiency in Go is essential, as is a strong background in Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, GitOps, and Terraform. We value candidates who have successfully guided projects from the design phase all the way to production deployment. You should be comfortable working in an environment that prioritizes site reliability engineering principles, and you must be fluent in English to communicate effectively with our global team.

What we offer

We believe in providing a flexible work environment that empowers our engineers to do their best work. Our benefits include:

• Full remote work flexibility.

How to Apply

If you are excited about the prospect of contributing to the Kubernetes ecosystem and building high-scale infrastructure, we encourage you to reach out. Please submit your application to join our team, and let us know how your background in platform engineering aligns with our mission to revolutionize cloud control planes.