Upwind is a place where opportunities happen
At Upwind, we are a team of hands-on, problem solvers and doers. We believe in empowering organizations to run their cloud environments securely and efficiently to accelerate their businesses.
Working at Upwind is an exhilarating journey of innovation and growth. Every day presents new challenges and opportunities that fuel my passion and drive. In this dynamic environment, I’ve collaborated with talented individuals who value inclusion and embrace different perspectives.”
Being an Upwinder
We are Driven by Customers
We listen closely to understand our customers’ deepest pain points, working backwards to deliver easy-to-use, innovative solutions that not only meet immediate needs, but anticipate future ones.
We prioritize long-term relationships and value over short term outcomes, striving to exceed expectations and reinforce our customers’ trust in Upwind.
We value speed
We make decisions swiftly, recognizing many can be reversed or refined.
We believe in failing fast, and aren’t afraid to change course when necessary. With a bias for action we take calculated risks – even in the face of uncertainty – knowing that urgency drives momentum and propels us forward.
Speed doesn’t just get us there faster; it lets us adapt quickly and build on each step with what we learn.
We Improve Every Day
We believe in the power of incremental progress: every day, every meeting, and every decision is an opportunity to improve.
Committing to getting 1% better with each cycle creates compounding gains, allowing us to build products that are 10x better over time.
Improvement doesn’t stop with delivery; we follow up, adapt, and refine to ensure every outcome evolves towards excellence.
We Take Ownership
We get the job done and never assume that someone else will do it.
When things aren’t going right, we take responsibility and step in to fix it. No task is beneath us, and “it’s not my job” isn’t in our vocabulary.
As owners, we stay aligned with the bigger picture for Upwind, communicating efficiently, giving constructive feedback, and proactively escalating issues to keep everyone moving forward together.
We are Resourceful and Resilient
We create our own reality, accomplishing more with less by leaning on creative problem-solving & adaptability.
When we face constraints and the path forward isn’t clear, we find ways to make it work without sacrificing quality or our commitment to high standards.
We see setbacks as new opportunities to innovate, moving forward stronger and better prepared.
We Lead with Humility
We approach every interaction with humility, respecting and learning from others.
We hold ourselves accountable, publicly owning mistakes and using them as stepping stones for growth.
Integrity guides us to act in the best interests of the team, fostering a culture of trust, shared purpose, and mutual growth.
As a UI/UX designer, I enjoy creating user-friendly experiences that deliver innovative technology. It’s empowering to be part of a company that values inclusion and embraces unique perspectives in the cybersecurity industry.”
Upwind is a place where diversity of thought is encouraged and accepted. My ideas are valued, my voice is heard, and my potential is realized. We are shaping the future of cloud security.”
Open positions
CloudOps Engineer
About The Position
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Develop dashboards to best aid our incident response capabilities
- Develop alerts based on SLOs allowing the team to respond to issues quickly
- Review logging setup to ensure that understanding the product flow is easy for engineers
- Benchmarking cloud disk performance and understand tradeoffs between filesystems
- Reviewing security group and network configurations to ensure the least privilege is being requested
- Build features in the development codebase from time to time
- Update the application code to review logging, metrics, tracing, auth etc.
- Reviewing infrastructure costs and looking for potential savings
- Write public-facing Terraform and Cloudformation for AWS, GCP and Azure
- Work with product development teams to support their IAM needs
Requirements
WHAT YOU’LL BRING
- 4+ years of experience as an engineer working in a cloud environment.
- A curious mindset where you like to be challenged to dive deep when required.
- Proven, hands-on experience with infrastructure as code in production environments (Terraform, Terragrunt, Cloudformation, CDK, ARM-BICEP etc..).
- Some programming experience (Golang or Java preferred).
- Scripting/programming skills with Python/Bash/Csh.
- An innovative approach, with the ability to quickly learn technologies, and implement cutting edge technologies.
- A strong sense of ownership and accountability .
Advantages
- 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
