Director of Engineering

Upbound

Remote regions

US

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Control Plane & Enterprise Strategy:

  • 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.
  • Shape how platform engineering teams compose infrastructure through Crossplane-powered abstractions.

Ecosystem Leadership:

  • Own the strategy for Upbound Marketplace as the distribution layer for Crossplane providers, extensions, and control plane building blocks.
  • Grow and strengthen the provider ecosystem (ISVs, cloud providers, platform partners).
  • Enable extension frameworks that allow customers and partners to build on top of Upbound control planes.

Organizational Leadership:

  • 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.

Upbound

Upbound builds infrastructure for the Agentic AI Era. They are the creators of Crossplane. The company is a Series B startup backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Altimeter Capital, and Intel Capital, and they’ve raised $69M to date, supporting Fortune 500 companies and platform engineers across 100+ countries.

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