Full-Time Senior DevOps Engineer

The Team

Upstart’s Delivery team builds and maintains the platform for our AI lending products. The team is dedicated to creating and maintaining tools allowing Upstart developers to reliably ship features and push changes to market faster with minimal engineer effort, and to provide visibility of those changes and configuration.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Upstart on the Delivery team, you will help architect, plan, build, automate and scale the tools used by Product Engineers to build, test, and deliver their code to production. You will be instrumental in defining and implementing our core platform infrastructure and help us realize our data-driven mission of affordable credit. 

We treat platform services as a product. We’re not only keeping the lights on and driving operational excellence, we’re also getting in the heads of engineers and trying to figure out how our work can maximize value to the company. We conduct customer interviews. We collect and analyze data. We’re passionate about maximizing product engineering velocity and value.

This is an engineering role. The expectation is that the right candidate can drive the creation of durable solutions from requirements gathering to performant, highly available, well observed production systems. This is not an administration or support role, although those activities may be required from time to time. As such, the successful candidate will have broad and deep experience in both full stack software development and operations engineering, especially building CICD solutions.

Position Location - This role is available in the following locations: Remote, San Mateo, Columbus, Austin 

Time Zone Requirements - This team operates on the East/West Coast time zones.

Travel Requirements - This team has regular on-site collaboration sessions. These occur a few days per quarter at various locations in the US. If you need to travel to make these meetups, Upstart will cover all travel related expenses.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Identify pain points in our create/launch/build/deploy processes, and outline plans to improve them
• Work with other engineering and product teams to ensure the tools we build are enabling those teams to move quickly with high quality standards
• Collect and analyze data around our systems and usage in order to introduce impactful features and improvements
• Engineer quality software deployment and rollback solutions that attempt to solve the right problem completely and reliably
• Continuously improve our products by treating support requests and incidents as the beginning of a requirements gathering journey that leads to better automation and more intuitive user interfaces

What we’re looking for: 

• Minimum requirements:
  • 5+ years of experience working with modern web application language / framework (Kotlin/Typescript/Python or similar)
  • 3+ years of experience with scripting and supporting multiple AWS Resources (ie, EC2, RDS, IM, S3, Lambda, API Gateway)
  • 3+ years of experience building & maintaining a CI/CD application including advanced deploy features such as canary deployments, post-deployment health analysis, automated rollbacks
  • 3+ years of experience with setting up monitoring/observability for complex web applications, including automation and continuous improvement of alerting, monitoring, dashboards, logging using techs such as DataDog, NewRelic, AWS Cloudwatch
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
• Preferred qualifications:
  • Experience building and maintaining high-volume, high-uptime CI/CD systems and related technologies (e.g. Jenkins, GithubActions, AWS CDK, Terraform, Gradle, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Knowledge of Linux architecture, administration, troubleshooting, and production operations - including automation via shell scripting (ie, Bash)
  • Skills in building CI/CD pipelines covered by automated tests
  • Ability to inspire other people to work with you, and the skills to remain engaged with a fully-remote team
  • A willingness to learn on the job and take on tasks as needed
  • Experience with tools similar to ArgoCD, Artifactory, Backstage, etc.