Senior Engineering Manager, Management Plane

Job overview

The Senior Engineering Manager, Management Plane role is listed in San Jose, CA, and the posting describes it as onsite. Compensation is not specified. The role supports Upbound’s Management Plane, which brings together the Hub, Console, Marketplace, and middleware for its infrastructure platform. This leader sets the Management Plane’s technical direction, develops the engineering team, and ensures its product surfaces work as a coherent experience. The work includes architecture, reliability, billing and licensing systems, agent-ready API access, and partnership across product and business teams.

What you'll do

• Own technical direction for Hub, Console, Marketplace, and middleware
• define architecture for the Hub API, multi-tenancy, and organization-level identity and access management
• oversee reliability and performance
• lead billing, metering, licensing, and entitlement systems
• develop senior engineers and grow the team
• establish roadmap planning, delivery, and production practices
• partner with Product, Design, GTM, Finance, and Customer Success.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior engineering manager

management plane

san jose ca

upbound

engineering leadership

saas

api design

multi-tenant systems

billing

metering

licensing

identity and access management

kubernetes

crossplane

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Leadership scope spans four connected Management Plane surfaces and commerce middleware, including billing, metering, licensing, and entitlements.

About the employer

Upbound is hiring for this role. Industry: Custom Computer Programming Services. Sector: 54.