Why join Upscale AI

Upscale AI is building the high-performance infrastructure powering the next generation of artificial intelligence. Backed by over $300M in funding and rapid global adoption, we are scaling systems designed for the world’s most demanding AI workloads.

We focus on first-principles engineering across silicon, systems, and networking—where performance, scale, and execution are critical. Our team is talent-dense and high-performing. We value ownership, technical rigor, and speed, and we offer the chance to work on foundational problems with immediate, real-world impact.

If you’re looking to do high-impact work, move quick, and help define the infrastructure behind the future of AI—Upscale AI is where you can produce meaningful work at the frontier—and operate at a high standard.

Location: India · Experience: 12–15 years · Type: Full time, IC

About us

We build a distributed control plane for datacenter network fabrics. Our platform orchestrates intent-driven configuration, change management, drift remediation,



and full-stack observability across cloud-hosted services and on-prem edge appliances deployed in customer datacenters worldwide.

The role

You will own critical platform subsystems end-to-end — from design through production. You'll build and ship core distributed systems components, drive the technical quality of the codebase, and unblock the team through direct hands-on contribution. You work closely with Product, QA, and Customer Engineering to deliver quality product to stakeholders.

What you'll work on
Distributed control plane spanning cloud services and on-prem edge appliances connected via mTLS gRPC streams
Observability and telemetry at scale: OpenTelemetry collection pipelines, stream processing (Kafka), time-series storage (ClickHouse/VictoriaMetrics), real-time fabric state views, packet-event analysis, and fleet-wide health aggregation
Agentic AI operations: design and build autonomous infrastructure agents that e

📌 Senior Staff Engineer Bengaluru (India)
🏢 Upscale AI
📍 India