Director of Engineering [REMOTE]

<div class="content-intro"><p style="line-height: 1; text-align: justify;">Upbound is redefining how modern infrastructure is built for the Agentic AI Era. We’re the creators and primary maintainers of&nbsp;<strong>Crossplane</strong>, and we’re building the&nbsp;<strong>Intelligent Control Plane</strong>—a new platform layer that makes infrastructure&nbsp;<strong>programmable, autonomous, and composable</strong>.</p> <p style="line-height: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Our mission</strong></span> is to power the AI-native enterprise with a foundational platform layer that helps teams provision, operate, and adapt infrastructure at scale—so platforms are ready for <strong>both humans and AI agents</strong>. We partner with leading cloud providers, ISVs, and open-source communities to help organizations move faster with greater confidence.</p> <p style="line-height: 1; text-align: justify;">Today, Upbound supports&nbsp;<strong>Fortune 500 companies</strong>&nbsp;and platform engineers across&nbsp;<strong>100+ countries</strong>. Crossplane has surpassed&nbsp;<strong>100M+ downloads</strong>&nbsp;and is used by&nbsp;<strong>1,000+ teams worldwide</strong>. We’re a&nbsp;<strong>Series B</strong>&nbsp;company backed by&nbsp;<strong>GV (formerly Google Ventures), Altimeter Capital, and Intel Capital</strong>, and we’ve raised&nbsp;<strong>$69M</strong>&nbsp;to date. Learn more at&nbsp;<strong><a href="http://upbound.io/" target="_blank" data-sk="tooltip_parent">upbound.io</a></strong>.</p></div><p>Upbound is building the control plane for the modern enterprise. As the company behind Crossplane, the open-source CNCF project that extends Kubernetes into an AI-native cloud control plane. Upbound enables organizations to compose, manage, and operate infrastructure and services through declarative, programmable control planes.&nbsp;Upbound Cloud delivers hosted, multi-tenant control planes that power platform engineering teams at scale. Our vision extends beyond infrastructure management into an AI-native Control Fabric — where control planes become programmable, extensible, and ecosystem-driven.&nbsp;As we scale into the next phase of growth, <strong>we are hiring a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Director to lead our Control Planes &amp; Ecosystem Group</span>.&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>As Director of Control Planes &amp; Ecosystem</strong>, you will own the strategy and execution for the customer-facing control plane experience across:</p> <ul