DevOps Engineer, Cloud Platform

🕒 July 1

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $142k - $196.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Upstart

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1001 - 5000 employees

🚘 Automotive

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

Automotive • Consulting • Healthcare

Upstart is a leading AI lending marketplace partnering with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit. The company focuses on revolutionizing lending and credit risk evaluation by leveraging its AI marketplace, which allows for higher approval rates and lower loss rates for Upstart-powered banks and credit unions. Recently, Upstart has expanded its offerings to include automobile refinancing. With a mission to enable effortless credit based on true risk, Upstart is also known for its digital-first lending experience and holds a significant position in the financial services sector.

📋 Description

• 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

🎯 Requirements

• 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base pay, bonus opportunities, and annual equity grants that vest quarterly • Retirement benefits to help you plan for the future, including a 401(k) or Group Retirement Savings Plan with a company match of $2 for every $1 contributed, up to $15,000 annually (USD in the US, CAD in Canada) • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with discounted stock purchase options for eligible employees (US only) • Comprehensive health coverage designed to support you and your family, including medical, dental, vision, and wellness resources for US and supplemental health coverage for Canada. • Health Savings Account contributions from Upstart for eligible plans (US only) • Income protection benefits, including life insurance and disability coverage for added financial security • Paid time off, sick leave, and company holidays, in line with local requirements • Paid family and parental leave to support caregiving and major life moments (duration varies by country) • Family-centered benefits to support fertility, parenthood, and caregiving needs • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offering mental health support and life-centered resources • Financial wellness resources, including access to financial planning tools and a financial concierge service (US Only) • Annual wellness allowance to support your physical and emotional well-being and personal development, based on what matters most to you • Annual productivity allowance to invest in relevant tools and resources you need to do your best work, no matter where you work from • Connection and community through team events, all-company updates, and employee resource groups (ERGs) • Onsite perks, including catered lunches and fully stocked micro-kitchens when working from one of our offices in the Bay Area, Austin, Columbus, and New York City (opening Summer 2026!)