Upbound is the company behind Crossplane, the open source project which started the control plane revolution in the cloud native community. Upbound helps companies rise above the clouds with our Crossplane powered Universal Cloud Platform. With Upbound you get universal real-time visibility into all of your infrastructure environments, the same API centric approach Kubernetes pioneered for managing infrastructure and policies, and self service infrastructure capabilities.
As a Staff Engineer on Upbound Console, you’ll be responsible for building the user experiences that customers of Upbound directly interact with. As the face and first touch-point for users of the product, you will be tasked with building the experience that will delight and impress them, thereby contributing meaningfully and tangibly to the overall business and product.
In this role, you will be…
- Designing and building the end user facing experiences of Upbound Console
- Designing and developing backend declarative, RESTful, and GraphQL APIs to retrieve application data and build dynamic visualizations and experiences
- Optimizing and troubleshooting Single Page Applications (SPA) across a diverse variety of environments (browsers, etc.)
- Reporting and fixing bugs in private and public projects
- Designing and authoring test plans, unit testing, and integration testing to ensure high quality code that is free of regressions
- Mentoring more junior members of the team and providing high quality constructive feedback on pull requests and design documents
- Partnering with other disciplines and roles on a shared mission, demonstrating highly effective communication and collaboration skills
- Supporting the full project lifecycle - discovery, analysis, architecture, design, documentation, building, migration, automation, and production-readiness
You are a good fit if you have...
- Written lots of responsive and performant User Interfaces (UIs - TypeScript preferred)
- Developed interfaces solving for cloud computing infrastructure management or Kubernetes management concerns
- Designed reliable, beautiful, and delightful to use Single Page Applications (SPA) with a variety of frameworks (React is ideal)
- Designed and developed APIs and services that are tuned for performance, observability, security, scalability, and high reliability.
- Written test plans and implemented test cases to keep your code to a high standard of quality, using libraries such as Jest and react-testing-library, as well as end-to-end testing frameworks like Cypress
- Followed CSS best practices for designing responsive user interfaces, such as Flex and Grid
- Managed application state with libraries such as Redux
- Optimized the packaging and deployment of your applications with bundling tools like Webpack
- Internalized how important owning the “face” of the product is and the effect it has on customer experience
- Architected and deployed highly scaled and reliable applications in multiple environments
- Incorporated modern operational and application delivery tools and methodologies into your production deployment workflows, like CI/CD, IaC, and GitOps
It is a plus if…
- You have worked in a startup and distributed/remote team before, and understand the unique challenges of a startup environment.
- You have built or contributed to backend services written in the Go programming language
- You have have been responsible for deploying/managing workloads running on Kubernetes in production
- You have a history of speaking at technology conferences, blogging/writing technical articles, and/or contributing to a popular open source project
