Mid/Senior Software Engineer - Cloud/SRE

About the role

Upstash builds a data platform for the serverless and edge era, letting users deploy data services quickly. The team uses Kubernetes, Golang, Terraform and cloud providers such as AWS and GCE. This role helps run the production environment and improve reliability and observability.

Key responsibilities

• Help run the production environment in Kubernetes.
• Improve the deployment lifecycle of databases and services.
• Implement automation and deployment scripts as code.
• Improve monitoring so problems are detected earlier than users notice.
• Incident management through on-call rotation among team members.

Required profile

• Strong interest in distributed systems.
• Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes in production systems.
• Experience with a well-known automation tool such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Cloud platform experience, especially AWS or GCP.
• Intermediate-level Golang and/or Python experience.
• Familiarity with Linux and its network layer components.

Nice to have

• Open source contributions.
• AWS or Kubernetes certificates.
• Monitoring/logging solutions in Kubernetes.
• Deep understanding of Linux.

What we offer

• Competitive salary and stock options.
• Work from anywhere in the world.
• Budget for events and tech talks.

To apply, send an email to the company's jobs contact, explaining why you want to join, what you are passionate about and an example of a self-taught project, job or skill; a resume or LinkedIn profile link is welcome.