About the job
At Upbound, we are revolutionizing the construction of modern infrastructure for the Agentic AI Era. As the primary creators and maintainers of Crossplane, we are developing the Intelligent Control Plane—a pioneering platform layer designed to make infrastructure programmable, autonomous, and composable.
Our mission is to empower the AI-native enterprise with a foundational platform layer that enables teams to provision, operate, and adapt infrastructure at scale, ensuring platforms are prepared for both human and AI agents. We collaborate with leading cloud providers, ISVs, and open-source communities to accelerate organizational agility and confidence.
Currently, Upbound supports Fortune 500 companies and platform engineers across 100+ countries. Our project, Crossplane, has achieved over 100M+ downloads and is utilized by 1,000+ teams globally. We are a Series B firm backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Altimeter Capital, and Intel Capital, having raised $69M to date. Visit us at upbound.io
As the driving force behind the control plane for the modern enterprise, Upbound is the powerhouse behind Crossplane, the open-source CNCF project that extends Kubernetes into an AI-native cloud control plane. Our platform allows organizations to compose, manage, and operate infrastructure and services through declarative, programmable control planes. Upbound Cloud provides hosted, multi-tenant control planes that empower platform engineering teams at scale. Our vision transcends mere infrastructure management, aspiring towards an AI-native Control Fabric—where control planes are programmable, extensible, and ecosystem-driven. As we enter the next growth phase, we are seeking a Director to lead our Control Planes & Ecosystem Group.

