DevOps Engineer - US East Coast/ Central

Upwind Security • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

Upwind is a cloud security platform that uses runtime context to identify and prioritize risks, combining runtime data, eBPF-powered sensors, cloud posture discovery, threat protection, and API security. The DevOps team works closely with Upwind’s engineering units to deliver CI/CD and scalable infrastructure for product features. The team uses open-source solutions and a modern technology stack that includes Kubernetes, Terraform, Argo, Helm, VictoriaMetrics, Neo4j, Elasticsearch, Redis, TimescaleDB, and RabbitMQ.

Upwind is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to contribute across its infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and product features. The role participates in architectural and infrastructure design, evaluates and implements cloud technologies and open-source tools, and helps improve product delivery, availability, developer experience, and infrastructure scale. The engineer is responsible for stable, scalable execution of product infrastructure and for monitoring and maintaining production infrastructure.

Requirements

• Experience as a DevOps Engineer on a production, high-scale distributed system in a Linux environment.
• Hands-on experience with containerized environments, including Kubernetes and its open-source ecosystem.
• Experience maintaining and scaling database and queueing infrastructures such as Elasticsearch, MySQL, Neo4j, Postgres/Timescale, RabbitMQ, Redis, or similar technologies.
• Extensive experience working with cloud environments on production systems.
• An automation mindset and a commitment to automating manual processes.
• In-depth knowledge of build and release systems and CI/CD pipelines, such as GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code in production environments, such as Terraform, Terragrunt, or CDK.
• Hands-on experience with Helm templating.
• Scripting or programming skills with Python, Bash, or Go.
• An innovative approach and ability to learn technologies quickly and implement cutting-edge technologies.
• A strong sense of ownership and accountability.

Nice To Haves

• Deep knowledge of the Prometheus monitoring stack, including Grafana, AlertManager, and VictoriaMetrics.
• Hands-on experience with multiple cloud vendors.

Responsibilities

• Contribute end to end to features across Upwind’s infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and product features.
• Participate in product architecture and infrastructure design.
• Examine and implement cloud technologies and open-source tools to improve product delivery and availability.
• Plan and advance developer experience and infrastructure scaling efforts.
• Ensure stable and scalable execution of infrastructure for product features.
• Monitor and maintain production infrastructure.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed