Director of Engineering, Control Planes & Ecosystem
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Location: San Francisco, California, United StatesFull-TimeDirector
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years of engineering leadership experience
- 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 such as marketplaces, providers, or plugins.
- Track record of delivering reliable production services with strong uptime and performance standards.
- Ability to operate strategically while diving deep technically.
- Experience with Crossplane and/or Kubernetes (plus).
- Background in platform engineering or internal developer platforms (plus).
- Experience building multi-tenant control plane architectures (plus).
- Startup experience in high-growth infrastructure companies (plus).
Responsibilities
- Define and drive long-term vision for hosted control planes and ecosystem extensibility.
- Ensure cohesive operation of Marketplace, UXP, APIs, and Extensions.
- Scale engineering organization structure to support product velocity and ecosystem expansion.
- Establish operational rigor including roadmap planning, delivery predictability, and uptime SLAs.
- Lead and mentor managers and managers-of-managers across multiple teams.
- Partner with Product, GTM, Alliances, and Customer Success to align ecosystem strategy with revenue goals.
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