Senior Engineering Manager

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☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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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 long-term technical direction for Hub, Console, Marketplace, and middleware • Define architectural direction for the Hub API, multi-tenancy, and organization-level identity and access management • Drive reliability and performance standards across Management Plane surfaces • Own metering, usage aggregation, billing, licensing, and entitlement enforcement systems • Ensure commerce systems are accurate, auditable, resilient, and adaptable to new packaging and pricing • Partner with Finance and Revenue on billing correctness • Ensure the Hub API supports autonomous agents and human operators • Evolve the Console toward a multi-modal experience • Lead senior individual contributors and tech leads directly • Grow the team, raise the hiring bar, and develop engineers into senior and lead roles • Establish roadmap planning, delivery predictability, on-call ownership, and production excellence • Partner with Product, Design, GTM, Finance, and Customer Success • Translate enterprise security, multi-tenancy, packaging, and entitlement requirements into platform capabilities • Represent the Management Plane in pricing, packaging, and customer-facing reliability discussions

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years managing engineers directly • Experience building and operating multi-tenant SaaS products at scale • Strong API design fundamentals, including versioning, backward compatibility, and designing for third-party consumers • Hands-on experience with at least one commerce or platform middleware domain: billing, metering, licensing, entitlements, or identity and access management • Track record of owning production reliability for customer-facing services, including incident response and on-call culture • Has built or intentionally restructured a team, not only inherited one • Technically credible with senior and principal engineers while operating at the roadmap level • Familiarity with Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem is a plus • Frontend or full-stack depth is a plus • Experience with marketplaces, developer catalogs, or package distribution systems is a plus • Experience with usage-based or hybrid pricing models and the systems behind them is a plus • Startup experience in high-growth infrastructure or developer-tools companies is a plus • Familiarity with how AI agents consume infrastructure APIs is a plus

🏖️ 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

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