Senior Software Engineer, Kubernetes & Spaces

Upbound; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Upbound is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help build and operate Upbound Spaces, the multi-control-plane management software at the heart of the Upbound Platform. You will scale production environments, extend enterprise-ready control plane management, and collaborate across product development and production operations.

In this role, you will write Go code interfacing with the Kubernetes API, work on multi-tenant SaaS systems, and help ensure reliability with robust observability.

Qualifications

• Experience operating production cloud services at scale.
• Strong debugging skills across distributed systems with observability tools.
• Experience building and operating controllers that interact with the Kubernetes API server.

Responsibilities

• Actively build and operate Upbound Spaces in production, troubleshooting and resolving issues across multi-tenant SaaS environments and open-source projects.
• Take ownership of building features in high demand by customers and deliver new functionality.
• Investigate and debug complex issues in customer environments, including multi-control plane scenarios and performance bottlenecks.
• Communicate through design documents for new initiatives and post-incident reviews that drive improvements.
• Support the full project lifecycle for scalable services in cloud environments—from discovery to production-readiness.
• Write and maintain Go code interfacing with the Kubernetes API (operators, controllers, add-ons) with focus on observability.
• Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot Kubernetes services in production using metrics/logs/traces.
• Author runbooks and documentation to promote new features and support deployments.

Skills

Production-scale ops

Debugging distributed systems

Kubernetes controllers

Customer engagement

Ownership mindset

Reliability & observability

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Upbound is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help build and operate Upbound Spaces, the multi-control-plane management software at the heart of the Upbound Platform. You will scale production environments, extend enterprise-ready control plane management, and collaborate across product development and production operations.

In this role, you will write Go code interfacing with the Kubernetes API, work on multi-tenant SaaS systems, and help ensure reliability with robust observability.