Staff Solutions Architect - N.A. - Remote

Overview

As a Staff Solutions Architect at Upbound, you own the technical success of our customers. You are the primary driver of customer outcomes, from initial implementation through production adoption, ensuring customers achieve real business value with Crossplane and the Upbound platform.

In Short

• Drive end-to-end technical success for enterprise customers.
• Own the implementation of Upbound use cases.
• Define and track technical milestones.
• Act as the primary technical escalation point for customers.
• Lead technical discovery to understand customer environments.
• Design and deliver Crossplane-based control plane architectures.
• Build and maintain reference platforms and implementation accelerators.
• Write code and fix bugs within Upbound products.
• Represent customer technical needs internally.
• Identify expansion opportunities as customer technical maturity grows.

Requirements

• Hands-on Kubernetes expertise.
• Platform engineering or SRE background.
• Deep familiarity with cloud-native tooling.
• Experience across at least two major cloud providers.
• Strong programming skills, preferably in Go.
• Proven track record in leading complex implementations.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Able to manage multiple engagements simultaneously.

Benefits

• Work with cutting-edge cloud technologies.
• Impact how revenue is generated and scaled.
• Shape systems and strategies for growth.
• Be part of a pioneering infrastructure platform company.
• Opportunity to work in a fast-moving startup environment.