Software Engineer (Kubernetes)

The Orchestration team at Upbound is seeking a Software Engineer to assist in the development of Upbound Cloud, their flagship SaaS offering. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building features in high demand by customers, communicating through thoughtful design documents, and supporting the full project lifecycle for highly scalable and reliable services running in a cloud environment. They should have experience building and maintaining cloud services, moderate to advanced experience with Kubernetes, and a strong sense of ownership and responsibility for solving problems. Upbound values a great culture and encourages people of all backgrounds to apply.

• Actively build Upbound Cloud, as well as contributing to Upbound’s open-source projects, especially Crossplane.
• 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.
• Have experience building and maintaining cloud services: CI/CD, observability, scaling, and an owner-operator mentality for your code.
• Have moderate to advanced experience 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.

• Have experience building and maintaining cloud services: CI/CD, observability, scaling, and an owner-operator mentality for your code.
• Have moderate to advanced experience 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.