Senior Software Engineer — Kubernetes Control Planes (Go)

Upboundext; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Upbound is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and operate Upbound Spaces, a control plane management software integral to our platform. You will contribute to scaling Upbound to support thousands of control planes.

Your role includes troubleshooting production issues, writing reliable Go code interfacing with Kubernetes, and supporting customer environments for operational excellence. Your contribution will directly impact development and production operations at Upbound.

Qualifications

• Experience in operating production cloud services at scale.
• Strong debugging skills in distributed systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes API and controllers.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate Upbound Spaces in production environments.
• Troubleshoot issues across SaaS environments.
• Write and maintain Go code for Kubernetes integration.
• Support the software release cycle for Spaces.

Skills

Cloud services operation

Debugging distributed systems

Kubernetes API interaction

Customer support

System improvement

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Upbound is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and operate Upbound Spaces, a control plane management software integral to our platform. You will contribute to scaling Upbound to support thousands of control planes.

Your role includes troubleshooting production issues, writing reliable Go code interfacing with Kubernetes, and supporting customer environments for operational excellence. Your contribution will directly impact development and production operations at Upbound.