Director of Engineering
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UpboundCloud Infrastructure
North America - RemoteFull-TimeDirector
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years of engineering leadership experience, including leading managers of managers; 5+ years building or scaling cloud-native, infrastructure, or platform engineering products.
- Required Skills
- KubernetesRESTful APIsSaaSDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering leadership experience, including leading managers of managers.
- 5+ years building or scaling cloud-native, infrastructure, or platform engineering products.
- Deep familiarity with Kubernetes and the Cloud Native ecosystem.
- Experience building SaaS control planes or distributed systems at scale.
- 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.
- Ability to operate strategically while diving deep technically.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive long-term vision for hosted control planes and ecosystem extensibility.
- Ensure Marketplace, UXP, APIs, and Extensions operate as a cohesive control plane experience.
- Scale engineering organization structure to support product velocity and ecosystem expansion.
- Establish operational rigor including roadmap planning, delivery predictability, and uptime SLAs.
- Partner with Product, GTM, Alliances, and Customer Success to align ecosystem strategy with revenue goals.
- Represent engineering in executive-level conversations regarding ecosystem expansion and AI-native infrastructure.
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