Upwork ($UPWK) is the world’s work marketplace. We serve everyone from one-person startups to over 30% of the Fortune 100 with a powerful, trust-driven platform that enables companies and talent to work together in new ways that unlock their potential.
Last year, more than $3.8 billion of work was done through Upwork by skilled professionals who are gaining more control by finding work they are passionate about and innovating their careers.
This is an engagement through Upwork’s Hybrid Workforce Solutions (HWS) Team. Our Hybrid Workforce Solutions Team is a global group of professionals that support Upwork’s business. Our HWS team members are located all over the world.
Upwork operates a large number of EKS clusters, including a robust Service Mesh ecosystem, enabling a decentralized application architecture designed to enhance security, resilience, observability, and control across applications. At the core of the Upwork’s Service Mesh lies the Kubernetes Orchestrator, specifically EKS, with Istio serving as the foundational mesh technology.
In this role, you will contribute to the operations of existing installations, as well as new Kubernetes-based solutions. Collaborating with our technical user community, you will bring deep expertise to guide scalability and stability improvements early in the development lifecycle. You will work closely with Engineering teams, supporting their requests for operating and troubleshooting their services.
We embrace diversity in knowledge and experience; people with different skill-sets and mindset comprise the platform engineering team, which aims at delivering the foundations of an efficient service delivery that has impact in our core product offering.