Senior Software Engineer

🔥 19 minutes ago

☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

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Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Upbound is a company that specializes in cloud native infrastructure management aimed at developers and platform teams. By leveraging Crossplane, a cloud native control plane framework, Upbound provides tools and services that simplify the management of cloud infrastructure resources through APIs. These solutions empower organizations to adopt self-service deployment strategies, enhance developer productivity, and ensure secure and compliant cloud operations. Upbound manages Crossplane operations, allowing platform teams to focus on building cloud native platforms rather than managing infrastructure life cycles.

📋 Description

• Build and operate Upbound Spaces in production across multi-tenant SaaS environments • Contribute to open-source projects, including Crossplane • Build customer-requested features and deliver new functionality • Investigate and debug complex customer-environment issues, including multi-control-plane scenarios, reconciliation problems, and performance bottlenecks • Create design documents and post-incident reviews • Support the full lifecycle of scalable cloud services, from discovery and architecture through deployment and operational support • Write and maintain Go code interfacing with the Kubernetes API, including operators, controllers, and add-ons • Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot Kubernetes services using metrics, logs, and traces • Build operational tooling for debugging environments, analyzing control-plane health, and automating incident response • Author documentation, user guides, runbooks, and blog posts • Support releases for Spaces self-hosted distributions • Participate in the on-call rotation for Upbound Cloud

🎯 Requirements

• Experience operating production cloud services at scale, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, post-mortems, and continuous improvement of service reliability • Strong debugging skills across distributed systems • Experience with observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and distributed tracing • Experience building and operating controllers that interact with the Kubernetes API server • Experience troubleshooting reconciliation loops, managing API rate limits, and optimizing controller performance • Comfortable working directly with customers to understand, reproduce, and resolve complex technical issues • Clear communication and effective collaboration • Ability to take ownership of solving problems during incidents affecting customer workloads

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud technologies • Meaningful engineering impact across product development and production operations • Work on Upbound Spaces, the Upbound Platform, and open-source Crossplane • On-call rotation support for Upbound Cloud

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