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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer - **Company:** Upbound - **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Software Debugging, Software Design Documents, Distributed Systems, Open Source Technology, Cloud Services, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Grafana, Kubernetes, Azure AKS, Dynatrace - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-software-engineer-remote-upbound-job-posting-7422471 ## About the Role * 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. ## Description * 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 - 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