Software Engineer

Upwind Security•San Francisco, CA

18d

About The Position

The Software Engineer supports incident response and product development by improving observability, reviewing cloud infrastructure and security configurations, and delivering infrastructure as code across AWS, GCP, and Azure. The role also works with product development teams on IAM needs and may build features in the development codebase.

Requirements

At least 4 years of experience as an engineer working in a cloud environment.
A curious mindset and willingness to dive deep when challenged.
Proven, hands-on experience with infrastructure as code in production environments, such as Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, CDK, or ARM-BICEP.
Some programming experience; Golang or Java preferred.
Scripting or programming skills with Python, Bash, or Csh.
An innovative approach and ability to quickly learn technologies and implement cutting-edge technologies.
A strong sense of ownership and accountability.

Nice To Haves

Deep knowledge of snapshotting, volumes, and encryption on public clouds.
Deep knowledge of filesystems.
Hands-on experience with multiple cloud vendors, including cross-account IAM and identity federation schemes.
Familiarity with deploying serverless functions with multiple cloud vendors.

Responsibilities

Develop dashboards to support incident response capabilities.
Develop SLO-based alerts so the team can respond to issues quickly.
Review logging setup to make product flows easy for engineers to understand.
Benchmark cloud disk performance and evaluate filesystem tradeoffs.
Review security group and network configurations to ensure least-privilege access is requested.
Build features in the development codebase from time to time.
Update application code to review logging, metrics, tracing, and authentication.
Review infrastructure costs and identify potential savings.
Write public-facing Terraform and CloudFormation for AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Work with product development teams to support their IAM needs.