Senior Manager of Database Engineering, Upstart

• 3+ years of people and team management experience, and 8+ years of experience in database engineering or DBA roles
• Deep expertise in Postgres, including extensions, performance tuning, and replication
• Experience designing and supporting high-volume OLTP systems
• Strong background with AWS (RDS, EC2, IAM, VPC, S3) and infrastructure automation
• Proficiency with Python or another scripting language for database automation and tooling
• Strong communication skills and proven ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and operations teams

Desirable

• The Database Engineering team owns the reliability, performance, and scalability of the database systems that power Upstart’s lending platform. Our environment is built primarily on Postgres and AWS RDS, supporting mission-critical financial transactions at scale. The team develops tooling, automation, and best practices that ensure our databases remain secure, resilient, and efficient as the business grows
• As a Senior Database Engineering Manager, you’ll lead this team of specialists, helping define the long-term vision for database engineering at Upstart while ensuring operational excellence today
• You’ll partner with product engineering, infrastructure, and data teams to set standards, solve complex scaling challenges, and enable developers across the company to work more effectively with data
• Define the roadmap for database engineering, ensuring our database infrastructure scales with Upstart’s growth
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Database Engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and collaboration
• Partner with application and data engineering teams to establish standards for database design, schema governance, and query optimization
• Drive initiatives to improve availability, security, and performance across all production and non-production database environments
• Champion automation and tooling that reduce operational overhead, increase observability, and improve developer self-service
• Act as a thought partner to engineering leadership on database strategy, scaling, and cost efficiency