# Senior Software Engineer

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. Upbound is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help us build and operate Upbound Spaces, the multi-control-plane management software at the heart of the Upbound Platform. As part of the Spaces team, you’ll help us scale Upbound to reliably suppo

- **Id**: 851930
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/upbound-senior-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-10T18:31:35Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T14:59:11Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 64
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6163
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: DevOps & Platform Engineering

## Company

- **Id**: 11043
- **Name**: Upbound
- **Domain**: upbound.io
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/upbound>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: C
- **Score**: 58
- **Open postings**: 13
- **Ghost share**: 0.692
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 141000
- **Max usd**: 244000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 1195

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Crossplane** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 64

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-13T04:11:30Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 16
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.433
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 64
- **Expected fill days**: 39
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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