--- title: 'Senior Software Engineer [REMOTE] at Upbound - Job Posting' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-remote-upbound-job-posting-atlanta-georgia-17280z3emdn2' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Senior Software Engineer [REMOTE] at Upbound - Job Posting - **Company:** Upbound - Job Posting - **Location:** Atlanta Georgia, United States - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2025-11-01 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/upboundext/jobs/5695710004 ## Job description Upbound is redefining how modern infrastructure is built for the Agentic AI Era. We’re the creators and primary maintainers of Crossplane, and we’re building the Intelligent Control Plane—a new platform layer that makes infrastructure programmable, autonomous, and composable. Our mission is to power the AI-native enterprise with a foundational platform layer that helps teams provision, operate, and adapt infrastructure at scale—so platforms are ready for both humans and AI agents. We partner with leading cloud providers, ISVs, and open-source communities to help organizations move faster with greater confidence. Today, Upbound supports Fortune 500 companies and platform engineers across 100+ countries. Crossplane has surpassed 100M+ downloads and is used by 1,000+ teams worldwide. We’re a Series B company backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Altimeter Capital, and Intel Capital, and we’ve raised $69M to date. Learn more at [upbound.io](http://upbound.io/). Upbound is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help us build and operate Upbound Spaces, the multiple control plane management software at the heart of the Upbound Platform. As part of the Spaces team, you will help us scale Upbound to reliably support thousands of control planes, while also extending enterprise control plane management and operations both in the cloud and on premises. Our team is expanding, and this is the perfect opportunity for you to make a significant engineering impact in both development and production operations. ## What You'll Do - 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. - Support the full project lifecycle for highly scalable and reliable services running in a cloud environment – discovery, analysis, architecture, design, review, documentation, building, migration, automation, deployment, production-readiness, and ongoing operational support. - 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. - Build and maintain operational tooling for debugging customer environments, analyzing control plane health, and automating incident response. - Author documentation, user guides, runbooks, and blog posts to support and promote new features that you release. - Support the software release cycle for Spaces self-hosted distributions, including diagnosing issues in customer-managed deployments. - Participate in on-call rotation to support Upbound Cloud, responding to incidents and driving them to resolution. ## What You'll Bring - Have experience operating production cloud services at scale: monitoring, alerting, incident response, post-mortems, and continuous improvement of service reliability. - Have strong debugging skills across distributed systems, including experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing) and techniques for diagnosing issues in production environments. - Have experience building and operating controllers that interact with the Kubernetes API server, including troubleshooting reconciliation loops, managing API rate limits, and optimizing controller performance. - Are comfortable working directly with customers to understand, reproduce, and resolve complex technical issues in their environments. - Take responsibility and ownership for solving problems even if they are outside your lane, especially during incidents affecting customer workloads. - Demonstrate excellence in your work, constantly trying to improve your skills and the operational posture of the systems you build. - Have empathy for customers and keep them in mind as you build solutions, understanding that reliability and debuggability are features. - Realize the importance of clear communication and effective collaboration to work as a team, deliver great results, and support customers through technical challenges. - Help create a safe environment where everyone can contribute, learn from failures, share on-call knowledge, and help each other grow as operators and engineers. ## #LI-REMOTE Why Upbound? At Upbound, you’ll help shape the systems and strategies that drive predictable, scalable growth in a product-led company embracing usage-based models. If you're excited to build from the ground up, work with cutting-edge cloud technologies, and directly impact how revenue is generated and scaled—this is your seat at the table. ## About Upbound Upbound is pioneering infrastructure platforms for the Agentic AI Era, serving Fortune 500 companies and platform engineers across more than 100 countries. The company empowers infrastructure and platform teams with Intelligent Control Planes - based on Kubernetes and Crossplane - that provision, operate, and adapt so platforms are ready for both humans and AI agents. Upbound is the creator and primary maintainer of Crossplane, the popular open-source framework for building cloud-native control planes, with over 100 million downloads and adoption by more than 1,000 teams worldwide. A Series B startup backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Altimeter Capital, and Intel Capital, Upbound has raised $69M to date. For more information, visit [www.upbound.io](http://www.upbound.io/). ## About Upbound - Job Posting ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Upbound provides an intelligent control plane platform, based on Kubernetes and the open-source Crossplane project, to help enterprises build and manage infrastructure at scale in the AI era. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: Not publicly available (company behind the open-source Crossplane project, which was open-sourced in 2018) - **Founders**: Bassam Tabbara (CEO) and co-creators of Crossplane ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering - **Target customers**: B2B – enterprise infrastructure and platform teams, Fortune 500 companies, cloud providers, ISVs - **Mission or purpose**: Enable organizations to build infrastructure platforms at the speed of AI, safely and with trust – transforming infrastructure from a bottleneck into a competitive advantage. ## Products & Services - **[Upbound Intelligent Control Plane]**: A SaaS platform built on Crossplane that provisions, operates, and adapts infrastructure across clouds. It is designed for both human operators and AI agents, enabling AI-native operations. - **[Crossplane (Open Source)]**: A CNCF-graduated, Kubernetes-native control plane framework that allows teams to compose infrastructure as custom APIs. Upbound is the primary maintainer and creator of Crossplane. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $69M (Series B) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: GV (Google Ventures), Altimeter Capital, Intel Capital - **Growth Signals**: Crossplane has surpassed 100 million downloads, is used by 1,000+ teams worldwide, has 10,000+ GitHub stars, 100,000+ contributions, and a 13,000+ member Slack community. The project is a CNCF graduated project. ## Competitive Advantages - **Creator of Crossplane**: Upbound is the original creator and primary maintainer of Crossplane, giving them deep expertise and influence over the open-source ecosystem. - **CNCF Graduated Project**: Crossplane’s graduation status provides enterprise trust and a strong community foundation. - **Intelligent Control Plane for AI Era**: Upbound’s platform is purpose-built to support both human operators and AI agents, positioning it as a key layer in AI-native infrastructure. ## Strategic Focus - Current priorities include expanding the intelligent control plane to enable autonomous infrastructure operations, deepening partnerships with leading cloud providers, and scaling the platform to support the growing demand for AI-native enterprise infrastructure. ## Why Work Here - **Remote-First**: Upbound is a remote-first company with team members across North America and Europe. - **Flexible Hours and PTO**: Flexible paid vacation plus 10+ observed bank holidays by country. - **Benefits**: US-based healthcare (HSA, FSA, PPO, HMO – 100% premium covered for the employee), 401(k) plan, stock option equity grants, home office stipend (desk, chair, internet). - **Culture**: Seven core values: Be Accountable, Collaborate Decisively, Demonstrate Craftsmanship, Care For Our Communities, Champion The Customer, Act as an Owner, Engage Vulnerability. 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