Upbound - Job Posting

Director of Engineering [REMOTE]

San Francisco, California, United States · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 134 days ago

Distributed SystemsKubernetesPlatform EngineeringAgentic AIRoadmappingCustomer SuccessLeadership

About the role

Upbound is redefining how modern infrastructure is built for the Agentic AI Era.
Crossplane has surpassed 100M+ downloads and is used by 1,000+ teams worldwide.
We're a Series B company backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Altimeter Capital, and Intel Capital, and we've raised $69M to date.

We're the creators and primary maintainers of Crossplane, and we're building the Intelligent Control Plane -a new platform layer that makes infrastructure programmable, autonomous, and composable.
We partner with leading cloud providers, ISVs, and open-source communities to help organizations move faster with greater confidence.
Today, Upbound supports Fortune 500 companies and platform engineers across 100+ countries.
Upbound is building the control plane for the modern enterprise.
Upbound enables organizations to compose, manage, and operate infrastructure and services through declarative, programmable control planes.
Upbound Cloud delivers hosted, multi-tenant control planes that power platform engineering teams at scale.
As we scale into the next phase of growth, we are hiring a Director to lead our Control Planes & Ecosystem Group.
As Director of Control Planes & Ecosystem, you will own the strategy and execution for the customer-facing control plane experience across:
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.

Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and deep technical craftsmanship.
Translate enterprise customer needs into scalable control plane capabilities.
Represent engineering in executive-level conversations around ecosystem expansion and AI-native infrastructure.
10+ years of engineering leadership experience, including leading managers of managers.
Deep familiarity with Kubernetes and the Cloud Native ecosystem.
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.

Our vision extends beyond infrastructure management into an AI-native Control Fabric - where control planes become programmable, extensible, and ecosystem-driven.
Help define and drive the long-term vision for hosted control planes and ecosystem extensibility.

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Our mission is to power the AI-native enterprise with a foundational platform layer that helps teams provision, operate, and adapt infrastructure at scale-so platforms are ready for both humans and AI agents.

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