Sr. Engineering Manager

Lead senior ICs and tech leads directly. Grow the team deliberately against the roadmap, raise the hiring bar, and develop engineers into senior and lead roles. Establish operational rigor: roadmap planning, delivery predictability, on-call ownership, and production excellence across the Management Plane surfaces.

Partner closely with Product, Design, GTM, Finance, and Customer Success. Translate enterprise requirements around security, multi-tenancy, packaging, and entitlements into platform capabilities. Represent the Management Plane in conversations about pricing changes, packaging, and customer-facing reliability.

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

Frontend or full-stack depth, enough to lead Console work substantively

Experience with marketplaces, developer catalogs, or package distribution systems

Experience with usage-based or hybrid pricing models and the systems behind them

Startup experience in high-growth infrastructure or developer-tools companies

Familiarity with how AI agents consume infrastructure APIs

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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 .