Senior Software Engineer, Upstart
Site Reliability Tooling
$160.4-222k
+bonus +equity
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AI lending marketplace
Open for applications
AI lending marketplace
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$160.4-222k
+bonus +equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable effortless credit based on true risk.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 6 years combined experience between Software Engineering, Site Reliability, and/or DevOps Engineering including CI/CD, TDD, internal tooling, observability, and other agile development practices
- Proficiency coding Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript
- Proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
- Software engineering background, including CI/CD, TDD, building internal tooling, and other agile development techniques
- Experience with on-call and incident management environments
- Experience with observability, monitoring, and reporting tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus)
- Experience supporting SaaS software in a microservice-oriented cloud environment
- Ability to work with multiple teams for enterprise-wide deliverables
Desirable
- Experience with IaC technologies like CDK or Pulumi
- Full Stack development skills
What the job involves
- Upstart’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team owns the reliability, resiliency, and observability of Upstart’s production systems
- The SRE team builds tooling and automation to monitor the health of our infrastructure and create a fast, reliable, and productive environment for other engineers and a world-class experience for our customers
- SRE defines Upstart’s strategy for technology operations risk mitigation, which includes disaster planning and on-call procedures
- We use data-driven approaches to drive our decisions, and provide reports and insights to the business to improve visibility into the system and customer experience
- As a Senior Software Engineer focused on Site Reliability Tooling your work will directly impact the success of the SRE team and all of Upstart
- Your expertise will inform the team’s direction, and your work with other SREs and Upstart engineers will make Upstart’s systems as effective as possible for our customers
- SRE at Upstart is ever-changing, and you will be a primary contributor in shaping our future path
- How you’ll make an impact:
- Embody and share SRE principles at Upstart
- Exercise state-of-the-art SRE practices throughout the company
- Uphold a culture of visibility, ownership, and responsibility around service reliability
- Implement standards for monitoring microservices, web apps, mobile apps, databases, Kubernetes clusters, and machine learning platforms, in a fast-paced environment
- Improve incident response practices, both within SRE and throughout the company
- Automate away toil that make sense to be automated
Our take
Business startups across the world usually seek out funding, but this is often difficult for companies led by millenials. Millennial entrepreneurs with an excellent track record in business are increasingly requiring access to these loans, but their lack of credit history results in proposals frequently being declined.
Upstart provides loans that are aimed towards the target audience of millennials with entrepreneurial intentions, offering low interest rates that average at 12%. The company claims these rates are 10% lower than traditional lenders, and the service aims towards ensuring that the client is subject to no further fees (such as prepayment penalties).
Upstart claims that its unique selling point lies in the fact that its loans are funded the day after approval. Whilst the service focuses on personal loans for business, the company has also expanded to offer loans for car refinancing. Over 2022 and 23, Upstart's stocks fell dramatically and an investigation was undertaken by a law firm representing the company's long-term investors over alleged security law violations by its board of directors. However, the end of 2023 saw a 20% stock value rise for Upstart after its partnership with Mutual Security Credit Union led to a rise in customers, indicating that it is on the up after a difficult two years.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-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
- Life insurance
- Disability insuranc
- Generous vacation policy
- Flexible time off
- Parental leave
- Technology equipment budget
- Personal development budget
- Various clubs and extracurricular activities
- Catered lunches
- Fully-stocked micro-kitchen
Company values
- Every second counts
- Do the right thing even when it's hard
- Make clever use of numbers
- Be smart and know you might be wrong
- Don't assume it can be done
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
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Leadership
David Girouard
(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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