3 months ago
Base Salary
$142k - $197k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and operate Kubernetes EKS clusters across production, staging, and ephemeral environments.
- Evolve AWS infrastructure and network architecture, including VPCs, subnets, IAM, and account structure.
- Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code and GitOps workflows using Terraform, CDK, and ArgoCD.
- Define and drive SLOs, analyze incidents, and implement systemic reliability and performance fixes.
- Participate in and improve the on-call rotation, lead incident response, and conduct post-incident reviews.
- Partner with SRE, Delivery, InfoSec, and Product/ML teams on infrastructure changes and platform standards.
- Improve developer experience by simplifying platform usage, reducing toil, and enabling faster product and ML development.
- Optimize resource utilization across Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure to improve cost efficiency.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 3 years of professional experience and 3 years operating Kubernetes in production.
- Experience with Kubernetes cluster networking, storage, and RBAC.
- Proficiency with AWS infrastructure, including VPC design, networking, and IAM.
- Expertise implementing infrastructure-as-code with Terraform or AWS CDK.
- Experience implementing GitOps workflows with ArgoCD or a similar tool.
- Ability to influence technical decisions across teams and drive adoption of platform standards.
- Preferred experience with Istio or Envoy, multi-cluster Kubernetes architectures, cloud networking at scale, Cloudflare or similar edge platforms, and cloud security, identity, and compliance frameworks.
- Preferred knowledge of IAM, SOC 2, and CIS benchmarks.
Benefits
- Remote work in the U.S. and Canada, with most teams meeting in person once or twice per quarter for 2–4 consecutive days.
- Medical, dental, vision, wellness resources, and supplemental health coverage in Canada.
- 401(k) or Group Retirement Savings Plan with a company match of $2 for every $1 contributed, up to $15,000 annually.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan for eligible U.S. employees, annual equity grants, and bonus opportunities.
- Paid time off, sick leave, company holidays, and paid family and parental leave.
- Life insurance, disability coverage, Health Savings Account contributions for eligible U.S. plans, and an Employee Assistance Program.
- Family-centered fertility, parenthood, caregiving, financial wellness, annual wellness, and annual productivity allowances.
- Team events, employee resource groups, and office perks including catered lunches and stocked micro-kitchens.
- Upstart is not currently able to hire in Quebec.
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About Upstart
Upstart builds an AI-powered lending marketplace and cloud software that connect consumers to banks and credit unions for personal, auto, and home-equity credit. Lenders use Upstart’s credit models and applications to automate originations, while Upstart earns platform and referral fees. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Upstart is a public company listed on NASDAQ under the ticker UPST.