Senior Engineering Manager — Management Plane

Job overview

The Senior Engineering Manager role is remote, as indicated by the listing’s #LI-REMOTE designation. Compensation is not specified. Upbound builds infrastructure platforms for the Agentic AI Era and maintains the open-source Crossplane project. The manager leads the Management Plane group, setting technical direction and growing a team responsible for Hub, Console, Marketplace, and middleware. The role brings these product surfaces together into a coherent platform and supports reliable, scalable customer experiences and revenue operations.

What you'll do

• Own technical direction for Hub, Console, Marketplace, and middleware
• define architecture for APIs, multi-tenancy, and identity and access
• oversee billing, metering, licensing, and entitlements
• ensure reliability and performance
• lead and develop engineers
• establish roadmap and delivery practices
• partner with Product, Design, GTM, Finance, and Customer Success
• support production excellence and on-call ownership.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior engineering manager

management plane

saas

api design

multi-tenant platforms

billing and metering

kubernetes

crossplane

remote

upbound

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Leadership scope spans four Management Plane surfaces and includes commerce middleware, AI-native access, and team development.

About the employer

Upbound - Job Posting is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.