Senior DevOps Engineer, Ephemeral Infrastructure

Upstart

89d • $163,600 - $226,400

About The Position

Upstart is the leading AI lending marketplace partnering with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit. By leveraging Upstart's AI marketplace, Upstart-powered banks and credit unions can have higher approval rates and lower loss rates across races, ages, and genders, while simultaneously delivering the exceptional digital-first lending experience their customers demand. More than 80% of borrowers are approved instantly, with zero documentation to upload. Upstart is a digital-first company, which means that most Upstarters live and work anywhere in the United States. However, we also have offices in San Mateo, California; Columbus, Ohio; and Austin, Texas. Most Upstarters join us because they connect with our mission of enabling access to effortless credit based on true risk. If you are energized by the impact you can make at Upstart, we’d love to hear from you! The Team: Upstart’s EPA (Environment Provisioning Agency) & Quality team is focused on building and maintaining critical supporting tooling for our AI lending products. We create developer-friendly solutions that enable our product teams to rapidly deploy and iterate. We partner closely with engineers across the company, ensuring our solutions are reliable at scale while staying simple and intuitive to use. As a Sr. DevOps Engineer at Upstart, you will help architect, build, automate and scale the tools used by product engineers to perform their pre-production development and testing. You will be instrumental in defining and implementing our Kubernetes-based “Ephemeral Infrastructure” and help us realize our data-driven mission of affordable credit.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps/SRE role
• 5+ years of deep, hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating Kubernetes in production
• Proficiency and experience with Golang
• Strong experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, EKS) in production environments
• Expertise in Linux systems: architecture, administration, troubleshooting, and operations

Nice To Haves

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator/Architect (CKA/CKAD) or equivalent certification
• Proven ability to inspire collaboration and stay engaged on a fully remote team
• Experience designing and building Kubernetes operators
• Strong CI/CD skills, including building pipelines with automated test coverage
• Broad DevOps expertise across scripting, IaC, automation, configuration management, and container orchestration
• Hands-on experience with tools like Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Artifactory, Harness, or similar platforms

Responsibilities

• Define and build the next generation of Upstart’s Ephemeral infrastructure
• Partner with XCUT teams to ensure all tools integrate seamlessly into Ephemeral Environments
• Drive major improvements in tooling and infrastructure alongside your teammates
• Enable product engineers to rapidly spin up fully functional environments for development, preproduction testing, pen-testing, lending partner demos, and other special use cases
• Evangelize Ephemeral tooling by delivering best-in-class documentation and processes

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation (base + bonus & equity)
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with Health Savings Account contributions from Upstart
• 401(k) with 100% company match up to $4,500 and immediate vesting and after-tax savings
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Life and disability insurance
• Generous holiday, vacation, sick and safety leave
• Supportive parental, family care, and military leave programs
• Annual wellness, technology & ergonomic reimbursement programs
• Social activities including team events and onsites, all-company updates, employee resource groups (ERGs), and other interest groups such as book clubs, fitness, investing, and volunteering
• Catered lunches + snacks & drinks when working in offices

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees