--- title: 'Engineering Manager, Partner & Deployment Engineering at Union.ai' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/engineering-manager-partner-deployment-engineering-union-ai-seattle-qg7zne1p7crv' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Engineering Manager, Partner & Deployment Engineering at Union.ai - **Company:** Union.ai - **Location:** Seattle, WA - **Compensation:** $215k–$240k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-09-01 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/union/828f376c-1b09-48e7-915f-9180b7e88e23 ## Job description ## About Us At Union, we are solving one of the hardest challenges in AI infrastructure today: enabling high-velocity iteration while maintaining seamless production-readiness for AI workloads at scale. [Flyte](https://flyte.org/), the open-source project we steward, has emerged as the modern standard for data and AI orchestration, and is trusted by leading technology organizations including LinkedIn, Stripe, and Wayve to run millions of mission-critical workflows on the platform. These workflows comprise data preparation, model training, and scaled inference spanning thousands of GPUs, all major clouds, and on-premise infrastructure. We have a technical founding team who created Flyte while at Lyft, a deep bench of infrastructure experts from top companies, and have raised from top investors like NEA and Nava Ventures. ## About the Role Union is taking its platform into deep, long-running partnerships with the largest infrastructure providers in the industry, including AWS, OpenAI, GCP, Azure, NeoClouds, and Apple. Each one is a multi-quarter engineering effort, not a business development handshake. It means porting our product to run natively on the partner's stack, then figuring out how that product gets packaged and installed across the wide range of enterprise environments their customers run. We're hiring an Engineering Manager to run the two teams that make this possible. Partner Engineering carries each hyperscaler and OEM relationship (AWS, OpenAI, GCP, Azure, NeoClouds, Apple, and others) through a roughly nine-month integration cycle, porting Union's product onto the partner's infrastructure and control planes. Deployment Engineering turns what comes out of those integrations into a maintained, repeatable install surface: containers, Helm charts, Terraform modules, marketplace listings, and BYOC or self-managed variants. The goal is that the product installs correctly across enterprise environments without bespoke one-off engineering per customer. We don't ship an integration and move on. We stay close to what each partnership actually requires in production, and translate real integration and install problems into reusable patterns, automation, and playbooks that make the next partnership smoother than the last. This role is hybrid, based out of our Seattle office. ## What You'll Do - Own planning and delivery across partner integrations and deployment formats. - Manage staffing, performance, and career growth across both teams. Identify and develop the project leads who own technical direction for each integration and each deployment work stream. - Own the technical relationship with partner engineering counterparts, including AWS, OpenAI, GCP, Azure, NeoClouds, and Apple, serving as the senior technical point of contact through the full multi-quarter integration cycle. - Set and hold the bar for what production-ready means for a partner integration and a deployment artifact: reliability, security, and operability, not just that it runs. - Set relative priority across active partnerships and deployment work streams when they compete for engineering time, and make that tradeoff visible to leadership rather than absorbing it silently. - Ensure every completed integration produces a corresponding, maintained deployment artifact. Partner Engineering's output should feed Deployment Engineering's roadmap, not create untracked one-off installs. - Track and drive down each team's operational footprint: on-call load, incident recurrence, and the support burden that partner-specific or deployment-specific issues place on the rest of the org. - Partner with project leads and senior engineers on technical direction. Make sure it exists and is sound without setting it yourself. - Work closely with Business Development, Sales, and engineering leadership to align on partnership priorities and technical tradeoffs. ## What We're Looking For - 5+ years in software engineering, with meaningful exposure to distributed systems, Kubernetes, or cloud infrastructure. - 3+ years managing software engineers or engineering teams, including at least one planning cycle taken from commitment through delivery. - Experience running or closely supporting long-cycle technical partnerships or integrations with external companies, six months or longer. Internal roadmap delivery alone is not the same thing. - Proven experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, and comfort evaluating tradeoffs across them without writing the code yourself day to day. - Deep familiarity with CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform and Helm, and container orchestration with Kubernetes, enough to hold your own in a design review. - Experience partnering with senior or staff-level engineers on technical direction without personally owning system architecture. ## Preferred Experience - Software packaging and distribution: Helm, Terraform, container or AMI builds, cloud marketplace listings, or equivalent multi-environment install engineering. - Working opposite a hyperscaler or major platform's partner engineering organization, such as AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenAI, or Apple. - Standing up or restructuring a team, such as splitting a single team into multiple project-led teams, or hiring project leads. - Operating in an organization where technical vision is set by ICs or founders rather than by the manager. - Managing at this scope without a management layer beneath you, leading through project or tech leads rather than sub-managers. - Background in Go, Rust, or Python, enough to hold your own in a design review even if you are not shipping production code. ## Our Stack - Languages. Go, Rust, Python. - Infrastructure. AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI, Apple platforms, Kubernetes. - Packaging and distribution. Helm, Terraform, Docker and AMI pipelines, cloud marketplace tooling. - CI/CD. Buildkite, ArgoCD. ## Benefits & Belonging At [Union.ai](http://Union.ai) we know that employees who feel their best can build amazing things and we are proud to offer best in class benefits that will continually evolve and grow as the needs of our employees do. Benefits may vary based on country. - Excellent medical - We pay 100% of your premiums and 90% for your dependents - Generous dental and vision plans- We pay 90% of the premiums for you and your dependents - Meaningful equity in the form of options – all employees are owners here - Unlimited time off + 12 company holidays - 401K match - Union.ai matches 100% of contributions up to the first 3%, and 50% up to 5% - 12 weeks paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers - Flexible work schedule (some restrictions apply) - For in office employees: Lunch provided onsite and well stocked kitchen with snacks and drinks. We believe that our differences are what bring us together to achieve truly special outcomes. We strive to be inclusive and focus on building teams that embody that quality too. [Union.ai](http://Union.ai) is an equal-opportunity employer and we encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesn’t align exactly with our job description. ## About Union.ai ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Union.ai provides the leading open-source AI runtime, Flyte, to help engineering teams orchestrate and scale AI, ML, and agentic systems in their own cloud environments. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A-II) - **Headquarters**: Bellevue, Washington, United States - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Haytham Abuelfutuh (Co-Founder & CTO), and other co-founders (specific full list not publicly detailed on primary sources). ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: AI/ML Infrastructure, Cloud-Native Orchestration, Data & AI Platform - **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (Biotech, Healthcare, Geospatial, Autonomous Systems, Financial Services, E-commerce) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To build the future AI application development infrastructure, enabling teams to move from experiment to production and scale faster. ## Products & Services - **[Flyte (Open Source)](https://flyte.org/)**: The leading open-source platform for data and ML orchestration. It enables teams to build production-grade pipelines for data processing, ML training, and AI inference. It is the core technology underlying Union.ai’s platform. - **[Union.ai Platform](https://www.union.ai/)**: A managed enterprise SaaS offering built on Flyte. It provides a secure, scalable runtime that runs in the customer’s own cloud (VPC), offering zero-trust security, cost management, and enterprise-grade support. It is designed for large-scale AI/ML workloads. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$58.2M** (with a reported annual revenue of **$15M** as of mid-2026). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: NEA (lead), Nava Ventures, Mozilla Ventures, NVIDIA (Inception Program), Frontier Ventures. - **Growth Signals**: - **Revenue**: Reported at $15M annually, with a 9.8x ROI for customers according to analysts [union.ai](https://www.union.ai/). - **Customer Wins**: Proven in production with major names like **Woven by Toyota** (autonomous driving), **MethaneSAT** (climate), **Stash**, **Porch**, **Dragonfly**, **Delve Bio**, **Rezo**, **LGND**, **Hopper**, **Blackshark.ai**, **Wayve**, and **Gojek** [union.ai](https://www.union.ai/). - **Headcount**: ~44 employees, with +7.9% yearly growth [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/union-ai). - **Open Source Community**: Flyte is a widely adopted OSS standard, with a strong community and a recent major release (Flyte 2). ## Competitive Advantages - **Open Source Core + Managed Cloud**: Deep integration with the Flyte OSS ecosystem, providing a unique “best of both worlds” — community-driven innovation with enterprise-grade security and support. - **Runs in Customer’s Cloud**: Unlike many AI platforms, Union.ai runs in the customer’s own VPC, addressing data security and compliance needs (Zero Trust architecture). - **Proven Scale**: Handles massive workloads (e.g., 160 GPUs for LGND, 4.4 billion flight prices for Hopper) with cost savings of 67-90%+ compared to alternatives like Airflow. - **Strong Customer ROI**: Case studies show dramatic compute cost reduction and faster time-to-production. ## Strategic Focus - **Scaling Enterprise AI**: Focused on helping large enterprises (biotech, autonomous driving, geospatial, finance) adopt AI at scale. - **Agentic & GenAI Workflows**: Actively building for the next wave of AI with support for LangGraph and agentic research workflows. - **Community & OSS Leadership**: Continuing to invest in the Flyte open-source project to maintain its position as the standard for ML orchestration. - **Commercial Growth**: Expanding go-to-market efforts with a growing sales team (active Sales Engineer openings). ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes “Purposeful Disruption,” “Customer Obsession,” and “One Team” — a strong engineering-first, collaborative environment [union.ai](https://www.union.ai/careers). - **Benefits**: - **Unlimited PTO** + 12 paid holidays. - **Generous parental leave** for all caregivers. - **Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision** for you and dependents. - **401K Match**: 100% match up to 3%, then 50% up to 5%. - **Device Advantage**: Company laptop is yours to keep after 2 years. - **Work Model**: Hybrid/Remote-friendly, with a headquarters in Bellevue, WA. The team spans 9 countries (US, Canada, Taiwan, Colombia, etc.). - **Engineering Culture**: Deeply technical, OSS-centric, and high-impact. You’d be working on the core infrastructure that powers AI for leading global companies. The team includes engineers from Meta, Amazon, Lyft, and NVIDIA [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/union-ai). - **Employee Rating**: **5.0/5.0** on LinkedIn (based on 8 reviews), with high marks for Compensation (4.9), Culture (4.9), and Career (5.0) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/union-ai). ## Sources 1. [union.ai - Homepage](https://www.union.ai/) 2. [union.ai - Company Page](https://www.union.ai/company) 3. [union.ai - Careers Page](https://www.union.ai/careers) 4. [cbinsights.com - Union.ai Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/unionai) 5. [linkedin.com - Union.ai Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/union-ai) ## Other roles at Union.ai - [Front-End Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/front-end-software-engineer-union-ai-seattle-gmgp9nt24jxa) — Seattle, WA - [Systems Development Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/systems-development-engineer-union-ai-seattle-gtjneg79y3bp) — Seattle, WA