Production Engineer (Iceland)

Description

Upwind is a next-generation Cloud Security Platform that leverages runtime context to identify and prioritize critical risks, providing precise insights and efficient cloud security management. Unlike traditional tools, Upwind uses runtime data proactively for risk prioritization and posture insights, ensuring teams focus on what truly matters. With industry-leading efficiency and eBPF-powered sensors, Upwind delivers comprehensive capabilities, including agentless cloud posture discovery, real-time threat protection, and integrated API security. From misconfigurations to malware defense, Upwind ensures end-to-end, cost-effective cloud infrastructure protection. At Upwind, you’ll have the opportunity to think creatively, explore new ideas, and use your skills to make a meaningful impact on our 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
  
  

Requirements

• 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

Upwind is a next-generation Cloud Security Platform that leverages runtime context to identify and prioritize critical risks, providing precise insights and efficient cloud security management.