--- title: 'Senior Software Engineer [REMOTE] at Upbound' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-remote-upbound-north-gk4n1xjth6d2' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Senior Software Engineer [REMOTE] at Upbound - **Company:** Upbound - **Location:** North, United States - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2025-11-01 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/upbound/jobs/5695707004 ## 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 ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Upbound provides an intelligent control plane platform based on Kubernetes and Crossplane that enables organizations to build, operate, and scale infrastructure at the speed of AI. - **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage and financial details not publicly disclosed in available sources) - **Headquarters**: Not publicly specified in provided sources; the company operates as a remote-first organization with a globally distributed team - **Founded**: Year not explicitly stated in available sources (the company was founded by the creators of Crossplane, an open-source project that began in 2018, but Upbound’s founding year is not confirmed from provided data) - **Founders**: Bassam Tabbara (Founder & CEO) – also co-creator of Crossplane and other CNCF projects like Rook ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes-native platforms, AI infrastructure, open-source software - **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise, SMB; specifically infrastructure and platform engineering teams. Trusted by over 1,000 teams worldwide [upbound.io](https://www.upbound.io/) - **Mission statement**: “We enable organizations to build infrastructure platforms at the speed of AI, safely and with trust.” [upbound.io/about-us](https://www.upbound.io/about-us) ## Products & Services - **[Upbound Crossplane 2.0](https://www.upbound.io/)**: The core product – an intelligent control plane for AI-native infrastructure. It provides declarative, Kubernetes-native management of infrastructure across any cloud, with built-in cost optimization, policy enforcement, and security. Available as a SaaS platform and as an upgrade from open-source Crossplane with zero configuration rewrites. - **Subscriptions**: Offerings for both individual community members and large enterprises, including enterprise-grade support, security, and compliance features. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: 100 million+ downloads of the platform; 1,000+ teams using the product; 100,000+ contributions from the open-source community [upbound.io](https://www.upbound.io/) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not listed in provided sources. However, the underlying Crossplane project is a CNCF-graduated project, and Upbound is an active contributor to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation [upbound.io/about-us](https://www.upbound.io/about-us) - **Growth Signals**: - 98% reduction in DevOps engineering costs reported by a customer [upbound.io](https://www.upbound.io/) - 99.98% faster deployments (months to minutes) [upbound.io](https://www.upbound.io/) - Upbound control planes handle 100x more resources [upbound.io](https://www.upbound.io/) - Portugal’s largest private-sector bank saved 15,500+ developer hours annually using Crossplane and Upbound [upbound.io](https://www.upbound.io/) ## Competitive Advantages - **Founded by the creators of Crossplane**: Deep expertise in the Kubernetes-native control plane paradigm that powers the platform. - **CNCF Graduation**: Crossplane is a graduated CNCF project, giving it broad community trust and ecosystem support. - **Declarative, AI-native infrastructure**: The platform is purpose-built for both human operators and AI agents, enabling instant provisioning, scaling, and self-healing. - **Enterprise-grade security and compliance**: Built-in encryption, policy enforcement, and cost controls. - **Seamless upgrade from OSS**: Users can upgrade from open-source Crossplane without rewriting configurations, lowering migration friction. ## Strategic Focus - **AI-native operations**: Continually evolving the platform to support autonomous infrastructure management, self-healing, and adaptive scaling as AI capabilities advance. - **Intelligent cost optimization**: Real-time scaling, resource rightsizing, and automated cost controls to prevent waste. - **Enterprise expansion**: Serving a growing number of large enterprises and financial institutions, with a focus on predictable pricing and transparent cost management. - **Open-source community leadership**: Maintaining active contribution to Crossplane and the CNCF ecosystem. ## Why Work Here - **Remote-first culture**: The company is globally distributed and offers flexible working arrangements, including work-from-anywhere policy [upbound.io/careers](https://www.upbound.io/careers) - **Benefits**: - Competitive healthcare (US-based plans cover 100% of premiums for the employee) - Stock option equity grants for meaningful ownership - 401(k) plan for US teammates - Home office stipend - Flexible PTO and paid holidays [upbound.io/careers](https://www.upbound.io/careers) - **Core values**: Be Accountable, Collaborate Decisively, Demonstrate Craftsmanship, Care For Our Communities, Champion The Customer, Act as an Owner, Engage Vulnerability [upbound.io/careers](https://www.upbound.io/careers) - **Engineering culture**: Deeply rooted in open source and cloud-native principles. The team includes veterans from Airbnb, Uber, Twilio, AWS, and MuleSoft. Engineers work on cutting-edge problems at the intersection of Kubernetes, AI, and infrastructure. - **Open roles (as of profile date)**: Customer Success, Support, Solutions Architecture, Software Engineering (Senior and Director), Sales (Mid-Market and Strategic Account Executives) – all remote within North America or EMEA [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/upbound) ## Sources 1. [upbound.io/about-us](https://www.upbound.io/about-us) 2. [upbound.io/](https://www.upbound.io/) 3. [upbound.io/careers](https://www.upbound.io/careers) 4. [upbound.io/resources/upbound-overview](https://www.upbound.io/resources/upbound-overview) 5. 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