DevOps Engineer, Upstart
Cloud Platform
$142-196.6k
+ Bonus & Equity
More information about location
AI lending marketplace
Open for applications
AI lending marketplace
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$142-196.6k
+ Bonus & 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 3+ years of professional experience
- 3+ years of experience operating Kubernetes in production environments, including cluster networking, storage, and RBAC
- Proficiency with AWS infrastructure, including VPC design, networking, and IAM
- Proven expertise in implementing infrastructure-as-code using tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK
- Experience implementing GitOps workflows using tools such as ArgoCD or similar
- Ability to influence technical decisions across teams and drive adoption of platform standards
Desirable
- Knowledge of service mesh technologies such as Istio or Envoy
- Experience designing or operating multi-cluster Kubernetes architectures
- Experience with cloud networking at scale, including ingress/egress or edge platforms (e.g., Cloudflare)
- Knowledge of cloud security, identity, and compliance frameworks (e.g., IAM, SOC 2, CIS benchmarks)
What the job involves
- Upstart’s Cloud Platform team sits within the Reliability organization and is responsible for building and operating the shared cloud infrastructure that powers all product and machine learning workloads
- The team owns core platform components across Kubernetes (EKS), AWS infrastructure, service mesh, identity, and developer tooling, enabling reliability, scalability, and security across the business
- As a DevOps Engineer (L4) at Upstart, you will help evolve this platform to support increasing scale and complexity
- You’ll partner closely with SRE, Delivery, InfoSec, and Product/ML teams to improve reliability, developer experience, and cost efficiency across a platform used by nearly every engineering team
- Design and operate a fleet of Kubernetes (EKS) clusters across production, staging, and ephemeral environments, ensuring reliability and high availability
- Evolve AWS infrastructure and network architecture (VPCs, subnets, IAM, account structure) to support scalable, multi-team workloads
- Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code and GitOps workflows using tools such as Terraform, CDK, and ArgoCD
- Improve platform reliability and performance by defining and driving SLOs, analyzing incidents, and implementing systemic fixes
- Participate in and help improve the on-call rotation, leading incident response and post-incident reviews to drive systemic platform improvements
- Partner with SRE, Delivery, InfoSec, and product/ML teams to land high-impact infrastructure changes and platform standards
- Drive improvements in developer experience by simplifying platform usage, reducing toil, and enabling faster product and ML development
- Contribute to cost efficiency initiatives by optimizing resource utilization across Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure
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, and in 2026 earned provisional approval to establish "Upstart Bank" as a bank in the US.
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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 & Executive Chair)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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