Upstart · 11 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Tooling
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$164K/yr - $226K/yr
6+ years expUpstart is the leading AI lending marketplace partnering with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit. As a Senior Software Engineer focused on Site Reliability Tooling, you will impact the SRE team's success by building tooling and automation to enhance the reliability and performance of Upstart's production systems.
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Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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 Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK, Cloudformation, etc.)
Software engineering background with experience building internal tooling from scratch, and other agile development techniques
Strong software design & architecture skills
Fundamentally sound with data structures & algorithms
Experience with on-call and incident management environments
Experience with observability, monitoring, and reporting tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, etc.)
Experience supporting SaaS software in a microservice-oriented cloud environment
Ability to work with multiple teams for enterprise-wide deliverables
Data/metrics-driven mindset
Preferred
Experience with service mesh
Full Stack development skills
Experience building tooling for an observability platform
Experience leveraging LLM/GenAI to improve SRE efficiency and processes
Benefits
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
Company
Upstart
Upstart (NASDAQ: UPST) is a leading AI lending marketplace partnering with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
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$3.36BKey Investors
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2025-11-06Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B
2025-09-05Post Ipo Debt· $320M
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Leadership Team
Dave Girouard
Founder & CEO
Paul Gu
Co-Founder
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