Software Engineer, Platforms

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 protection of cloud infrastructure. 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 Software Engineer to join our Platforms team. This is a hands-on role for an engineer with 1 to 3 years of professional experience who wants broad ownership across the stack and short feedback loops between writing code and seeing it used.

The Platforms team owns core systems that Upwind's engineering and security organizations are built on: backend services and APIs, data and event pipelines operating at scale, and the applications layered on top of them. You will own your work end to end, from design through deployment and ongoing operation, and partner with teams across engineering, security, and product to take problems from an open brief to a system running in production.

What You'll Do

• Develop and maintain backend services and APIs in Python and Go
• Build web interfaces on top of those services, primarily in React
• Build and operate data and event pipelines that move large volumes of data reliably
• Work with relational and search-based data stores, including schema design, indexing, and query performance
• Deploy and operate your services in the cloud, and own their reliability once they are live
• Debug production issues across the stack and drive fixes to root cause
• Work closely with engineering, security, and product stakeholders to turn loosely defined needs into production systems

• B.Sc. in Computer Science
• 1 to 3 years of professional experience building and shipping production software
• Strong programming skills, with proven experience designing and building backend services and APIs
• Practical frontend experience with React and modern JavaScript or TypeScript
• Solid grounding in relational databases, including data modeling and writing efficient queries against non-trivial schemas
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and with containerized workloads
• Demonstrated ability to take a task from ambiguous requirements to a deployed, working solution with limited supervision
• Strong debugging skills, including in code you did not write

Nice to have:

• Experience working across both Python and Go in production
• Experience with search, observability, or monitoring stacks (OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Grafana, Prometheus)
• Experience with event-driven or queue-based architectures (SQS, Redis)
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, or other infrastructure-as-code tooling
• Background or genuine interest in security: cloud security, SOC and SIEM workflows, detection engineering, or supply chain security
• Experience integrating LLM APIs or building AI-assisted workflows into real products