# Senior Software Engineer at Upbound

- Company: Upbound
- What the company does: Backed by GV.
- Company website: https://www.upbound.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2025-11-01
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/upbound/jobs/5695707004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/upbound-senior-software-engineer/

## About the role

As part of the Spaces team, you’ll help us scale Upbound to reliably support thousands of control planes while extending enterprise-grade control plane management and operations across both cloud and on-premises environments. Our team is growing, and this is an opportunity to make a meaningful engineering impact across both product development and production operations.

## What they're looking for

- Actively build and operate Upbound Spaces in production, troubleshooting and resolving issues across multi-tenant SaaS environments, as well as contributing to Upbound's open-source projects, including Crossplane
- Take ownership of building features in high demand by Upbound's customers and deliver new functionality that will delight and amaze our users
- Investigate and debug complex issues in customer environments, including multi-control plane scenarios, resource reconciliation problems, and performance bottlenecks
- Communicate through thoughtful and thorough design documents for new initiatives and detailed post-incident reviews that drive system improvements
- Write and maintain Go code that interfaces with the Kubernetes API, such as operators, controllers, add-ons, etc., with a focus on observability, debuggability, and operational excellence
- Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot our Kubernetes services in production, using metrics, logs, and traces to identify and resolve issues quickly

Tags: Software Engineering