Sr. Engineering Manager

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.

Experience with Crossplane and/or Kubernetes.

Background in platform engineering or internal developer platforms.

Experience building multi-tenant control plane architectures.

Startup experience in high-growth infrastructure companies.

Passion for programmable infrastructure and AI-native systems.

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At Upbound, you’ll help shape the systems and strategies that drive predictable, scalable growth in a product-led company embracing usage-based models. If you're excited to build from the ground up, work with cutting-edge cloud technologies, and directly impact how revenue is generated and scaled—this is your seat at the table.

Upbound is pioneering infrastructure platforms for the Agentic AI Era, serving Fortune 500 companies and platform engineers across more than 100 countries. The company empowers infrastructure and platform teams with Intelligent Control Planes - based on Kubernetes and Crossplane - that provision, operate, and adapt so platforms are ready for both humans and AI agents. Upbound is the creator and primary maintainer of Crossplane, the popular open-source framework for building cloud-native control planes, with over 100 million downloads and adoption by more than 1,000 teams worldwide. A Series B startup backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Altimeter Capital, and Intel Capital, Upbound has raised $69M to date. For more information, visit www.upbound.io .