Upwind is the runtime-powered CNAPP that leverages runtime data to secure our customers’ cloud infrastructure. Upwind’s comprehensive approach to cloud security helps organizations mitigate the risks that actually matter, identify the root causes of threats in minutes and respond with context and automation. Upwinders are spread across the globe in all departments and work together to protect the infrastructure of our customers - we’re a strong, emerging player in a massive and growing market, and it’s still early enough for you to make a significant impact. At Upwind, you’ll have the freedom to think creatively, dream big, and use your full range of skills to contribute to our record growth.

We are looking for a motivated software engineer to join our Production Engineering Team. The team faces complex engineering issues on a daily basis, both solving new challenges and constantly improving the existing solutions. We work with all major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and use both cutting-edge and proven technologies such as Go, Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and more.This role bridges Software Engineering, DevOps, and SRE, emphasizing reliability, observability, development infrastructure, and continuous deployment to maintain and enhance production stability.

Responsibilities

• Analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of customer deployed components and related backend elements
• Designing, implementing, and refining alerting systems
• Developing and maintaining infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions for development infrastructure
• Developing dashboards and monitoring systems to ensure high availability and improve MTTR
• Building, maintaining, and improving CI/CD pipelines to streamline code deployment and ensure robust production systems
• Contributing to Code and conducting Code Reviews, primarily infrastructure and reliability improvements rather than feature development
• Interfacing with other teams (e.g. DevOps & Software Engineering) to deliver best-in-class scalability and performance

• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field (or equivalent professional experience in a similar role)
• 2+ years of experience with Software Engineering, SRE or DevOps Engineering
• 2+ years of experience with using one or more high-level programming language(s) (e.g. Golang, Java, C#, Python)
• 2+ years of experience with shell scripting (Bash)
• 2+ years of experience with Linux
• Experience with cloud platforms and products (e.g. AWS, GCP and Azure)
• Experience with monitoring and observability (instrumenting metrics, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Experience with Golang - is a plus
• Experience with Kubernetes & Docker - is a plus
• Experience with SRE/DevOps methodologies like Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and incident response - is a plus
• Experience working with SQL Databases - is a plus