Staff Solutions Architect - EMEA [REMOTE]

Upbound is a company that provides infrastructure platforms for the Agentic AI Era, serving Fortune 500 companies and platform engineers across more than 100 countries. As a Solutions Architect, you will work with customers to implement Upbound's products and solutions, and be responsible for the technical implementation of Upbound's products and solutions. The role involves building rapport with customers, identifying their platform needs, and designing architecture and solutions that delight.

Requirements

• Written and maintained code that interfaces with the Kubernetes API
• Managed production Kubernetes deployments or have been responsible for deploying/managing workloads running on Kubernetes in production
• A background in platform engineering/SRE with building an IDP (Internal Developer Portal)
• German language proficiency is a huge plus
• A deep understanding of highly scaled and reliable services, solutions, and infrastructure in multiple major cloud providers
• Excellent communication skills
• Worked directly with customers and/or open source community members to troubleshoot and solve their complex technical issues leading to successful adoption
• Deployed and integrated the projects and tools of the Cloud Native Landscape, especially CNCF projects, into production environments
• Incorporated modern operational and application delivery tools and methodologies into your production deployment workflows
• Programming skills in a modern language (Go is ideal)
• The ability to work closely with people in a wide variety of disciplines from a wide variety of backgrounds
• Successfully managed multiple projects and priorities in a fast paced and dynamic environment
• Excitement and comfort being a key part of further defining, scaling, and making this critical part of our engineering and customer solutions efforts thrive

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401k Matching
• Retirement Plan
• Four Day Work Week
• Generous Parental Leave
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Relocation Assistance