Upbound
11 - 50 employees
Founded 2017
☁️ SaaS
🏢 Enterprise
Cloud Computing • SaaS • Enterprise
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.
Director of Engineering
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🕒 March 10
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Upbound
11 - 50 employees
Founded 2017
☁️ SaaS
🏢 Enterprise
Cloud Computing • SaaS • Enterprise
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 for Upbound Marketplace as the distribution layer for Crossplane providers, extensions, and control plane building blocks. • 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. • Lead managers and managers-of-managers across multiple teams. • Scale engineering org structure to support product velocity and ecosystem expansion. • Establish operational rigor: roadmap planning, delivery predictability, uptime SLAs, and production excellence. • Partner closely with Product, GTM, Alliances, and Customer Success to align ecosystem strategy with revenue goals.
🎯 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
• Competitive salary • Flexible working hours • Health insurance • Professional development opportunities • Remote work options
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