Upwind Security builds a cloud-native application protection platform that ties runtime signals back to build-time, with eBPF, Go and Kubernetes at the core and Neo4j, TimescaleDB and Elasticsearch behind its data layer. Hiring is accelerating and heavily sales-led and senior, spread across a dozen countries, while projects center on channel partners, regional sales strategy and POCs, pointing to an aggressive international go-to-market push.
Notable leadership hires: Regional Director
Upwind Security is a privately held cloud security company founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its platform covers the CNAPP category, serving developers, security engineers and DevOps teams that run workloads on AWS, Azure and GCP. The company employs 501–1,000 people and hires across the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, including the United Kingdom, Germany, France, India, Singapore, Australia and the UAE. Its product engineering spans Go, Java, Python and TypeScript, with Kubernetes, Docker and Terraform for infrastructure.
Upwind runs on AWS, GCP and Azure with Kubernetes, Docker, eBPF, Go, Java, Python, TypeScript and React, plus Neo4j, Elasticsearch, TimescaleDB, Redis and RabbitMQ, and Terraform with GitLab CI/CD and Jenkins.
Yes. Hiring is accelerating and sales is the dominant department, skewed toward senior roles and regional director leadership, alongside engineering, support and security positions.
Upwind hires in the United States, China, Gibraltar, India, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Australia, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.
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