Senior DevOps Engineer, Upstart
Ephemeral Platform
$166.9-230.9k
$153,000—$190,000 CAD + Target bonuses + Equity
More information about location
AI lending marketplace
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AI lending marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$166.9-230.9k
$153,000—$190,000 CAD + Target bonuses + Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable effortless credit based on true risk.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience) and 4+ years of software engineering experience
- 4+ years of experience designing, deploying, and operating production Kubernetes environments
- Experience building and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS, including services such as EKS, EC2, IAM, and networking components
- Experience with Kubernetes operators, controllers, and cloud-native platform architecture
- Experience developing software and automation using Go or a comparable programming language
- Experience implementing infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and automated operational workflows in production environments
Desirable
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator/Architect (CKA/CKAD) or equivalent certification
- Experience with Terraform, Helm, GitOps practices, and tools such as ArgoCD
- Experience operating distributed systems with a focus on observability, reliability, and incident response
- Ability to influence platform adoption and collaborate effectively across multiple engineering teams
- Experience building internal developer platforms, ephemeral environment solutions, or developer productivity tooling
What the job involves
- Upstart’s EPA & Quality team builds and operates the infrastructure, tooling, and developer platforms that support software development across the company
- The team focuses on creating reliable, scalable, and easy-to-use solutions that help engineers build, test, and validate software efficiently while maintaining high standards for security, performance, and operational excellence
- As a Senior Software Engineer, DevOps at Upstart, you will help evolve our Ephemeral Infrastructure platform: the Kubernetes-based environments, cloud infrastructure, automation, and developer tooling that enable engineers to rapidly develop and validate software
- You will own meaningful technical areas across platform engineering, infrastructure automation, and developer experience while helping improve reliability, scalability, and engineering productivity across Upstart
- Design, build, and operate Kubernetes-based ephemeral environments that enable engineers to develop, test, and validate software efficiently
- Improve the reliability, scalability, performance, and usability of the Ephemeral Infrastructure platform through automation and platform enhancements
- Partner with product engineering, platform, security, and reliability teams to integrate infrastructure capabilities and improve developer workflows
- Build infrastructure automation, tooling, and self-service capabilities that reduce operational toil and accelerate software delivery
- Enhance observability, incident response, and operational practices to improve platform health and engineer productivity
- Contribute to the long-term architecture and technical direction of Upstart’s developer platform and cloud infrastructure ecosystem
Our take
Based in San Mateo, California, Upstart is piositioning itself as a leading AI lending marketplace, connecting millions of consumers with more than 100 banks and credit unions. In a market where credit access can be limited by traditional scoring methods, Upstart aims to make lending fairer and more accessible by using technology to better understand each borrowers true potential.
Upstart builds AI and cloud-based tools that help lenders approve more borrowers at lower rates. Its models analyze thousands of variables (not just credit scores) to predict creditworthiness more accurately. And through its platform, consumers can access personal, auto, and home-equity loans, as well as smaller "relief" loans, all through a seamless digital experience.
So far, its success is reflected in its high loan automation rate (over 90% of loans are fully processed without human intervention) and the billions in loan originations it has facilitated. The company continues to refine its AI models and expand its offerings, with the goal of helping lenders serve more customers while making borrowing easier and more affordable.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2019
$50m
SERIES D
Mar 2017
$32.5m
SERIES D
Total funding: $135.7m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health plans
- 401k Plan
- Annual wellness reimbursement
- Disability insurance
- Generous vacation policy
- Flexible time off
- Parental leave
- Family forming benefits through Carrot
- Technology equipment budget
- Personal development budget
- Various clubs and extracurricular activities
- Catered lunches
- Fully stocked micro-kitchen
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
David Girouard
(Founder & CEO)They started their career at Accenture and Booz Allen & Hamilton before working in Product Management at Apple and Virage. They left their role of 8 years as President of Enterprise at Google to found Upstart in March 2012.
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