Senior Engineering Manager

🕒 September 10

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Upbound

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Upbound is a company that specializes in cloud native infrastructure management aimed at developers and platform teams. By leveraging Crossplane, a cloud native control plane framework, Upbound provides tools and services that simplify the management of cloud infrastructure resources through APIs. These solutions empower organizations to adopt self-service deployment strategies, enhance developer productivity, and ensure secure and compliant cloud operations. Upbound manages Crossplane operations, allowing platform teams to focus on building cloud native platforms rather than managing infrastructure life cycles.

📋 Description

• Own the strategy and execution for the customer-facing control plane experience across Crossplane, Upbound Crossplane, Upbound Marketplace, official providers and extensions, and partner integrations • Help define and drive the long-term vision for hosted control planes and ecosystem extensibility • Ensure Marketplace, UXP, APIs, and Extensions operate as a cohesive control plane experience • Shape how platform engineering teams compose infrastructure through Crossplane-powered abstractions • Drive reliability, scalability, and production-grade control planes at scale • Own the strategy for Upbound Marketplace as the distribution layer for Crossplane providers, extensions, and control plane building blocks • Grow and strengthen the provider ecosystem, including ISVs, cloud providers, and platform partners • Enable extension frameworks for customers and partners • Lead managers and managers-of-managers across multiple teams • Scale engineering organization structure to support product velocity and ecosystem expansion • Establish operational rigor around roadmap planning, delivery predictability, uptime SLAs, and production excellence • Partner with Product, GTM, Alliances, and Customer Success to align ecosystem strategy with revenue goals • Translate enterprise customer needs into scalable control plane capabilities • Represent engineering in executive-level conversations about ecosystem expansion and AI-native infrastructure

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of engineering leadership experience, including leading managers of managers • 5+ years building or scaling cloud-native, infrastructure, or platform engineering products • Deep familiarity with Kubernetes and the Cloud Native ecosystem • Experience building SaaS control planes or distributed systems at scale • Strong understanding of APIs, SDKs, declarative systems, and extensibility frameworks • Proven experience growing ecosystem-driven products (marketplaces, providers, plugins, or integrations) • Track record of delivering reliable production services with strong uptime and performance standards • Ability to operate strategically while diving deep technically

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to shape systems and strategies driving predictable, scalable growth in a product-led company • Work with cutting-edge cloud technologies • Direct impact on how revenue is generated and scaled