# Sr. Engineering Manager

Upbound is redefining how modern infrastructure is built for the Agentic AI Era. We’re the creators and primary maintainers of Crossplane, and we’re building the Intelligent Control Plane -a new platform layer that makes infrastructure programmable, autonomous, and composable. Our mission 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 100+ countries. Crossplane has surpassed 100M+ downloads and is used by 1,000+ teams worldwide. We’re a Series B company backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Altimeter Capital, and Intel Capital, and we’ve raised $69M to date. Learn more at upbound.io. 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 o

- **Id**: 913270
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/upbound-sr-engineering-manager-2>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Seattle, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-14T12:41:34Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T14:59:11Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 61
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8934
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: DevOps & Platform Engineering

## Company

- **Id**: 11043
- **Name**: Upbound
- **Domain**: upbound.io
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/upbound>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: C
- **Score**: 58
- **Open postings**: 13
- **Ghost share**: 0.692
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 155000
- **Max usd**: 316000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 1354

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Crossplane** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 60

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-14T17:51:16Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 11
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.377
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 60
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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