Upstart

Software Engineer, Site Reliability

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14 hours ago
Remote, United StatesMid Level
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Base Salary

$142k - $197k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and improve software, tooling, services, and automation that enhance production reliability.
  • Develop shared observability capabilities for metrics, logs, traces, service health, and customer impact.
  • Improve incident response and operational readiness through tooling, automation, standards, and actionable production signals.
  • Build resiliency capabilities that identify failure modes, reduce operational risk, and improve recovery.
  • Replace recurring manual operational work with durable software and automation.
  • Use AI throughout software development and operational problem solving, including developing AI-enabled reliability workflows.

Requirements

  • Requires 3+ years of professional experience in software engineering, site reliability engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
  • Requires strong software development skills in one or more general-purpose programming languages such as Python, Go, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
  • Requires experience designing, building, testing, and operating production software, internal tooling, or infrastructure.
  • Requires experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, observability, monitoring, or production operations.
  • Requires participation in on-call or incident response for production systems.
  • Requires the ability to independently deliver well-scoped projects, navigate technical ambiguity, and collaborate across engineering teams.
  • Requires experience using AI-assisted development tools across multiple stages of the software engineering lifecycle.
  • Preferred qualifications include Kubernetes, AWS, infrastructure as code, cloud-native production environments, reliability or observability tooling, Datadog, Sumo Logic, CloudWatch, high-availability distributed applications, and reliability practices such as service level objectives, capacity planning, resiliency testing, disaster recovery, and operational readiness.

Benefits

  • Remote work in the United States, with most teams meeting once or twice per quarter for 2–4 consecutive days.
  • Base salary range of $142,000–$196,600 USD, plus target bonuses and equity compensation.
  • 401(k) or Group Retirement Savings Plan with a company match of $2 for every $1 contributed, up to $15,000 annually.
  • Medical, dental, vision, wellness resources, health savings account contributions for eligible US plans, life insurance, and disability coverage.
  • Paid time off, sick leave, company holidays, and paid family and parental leave.
  • Family-centered fertility, parenthood, and caregiving benefits, plus an Employee Assistance Program.
  • Financial wellness resources, an annual wellness allowance, and an annual productivity allowance.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan for eligible US employees, team events, employee resource groups, and office perks.

Categories

Site Reliability
Upstart

About Upstart

1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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