upboundext

Director of Engineering [REMOTE]

Apply Now

At a Glance

Location
New York, United States
Work Regime
remote
Experience
10+ years
Posted
2026-03-09T19:03:28-04:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

Kubernetes

Domain Knowledge

  • Engineering
  • SaaS

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).

About the Company

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

both humans and AI agents

. We partner with leading cloud providers, ISVs, and open-source communities to help organizations move faster with greater confidence.

Today, Upbound supports

Fortune 500 companies

and platform engineers across