About Upstart
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; Austin, Texas; and New York City, NY (opening Summer 2026).
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.
How you’ll make an impact
- 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
Minimum Qualifications
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- 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
Position location This role is available in the following locations: Remote-United States
Time zone requirements The team operates on the East/West coast time zones.
Travel requirements As a digital first company, the majority of your work can be accomplished remotely. The majority of our employees can live and work anywhere in the U.S but are encouraged to to still spend high quality time in-person collaborating via regular onsites. The in-person sessions’ cadence varies depending on the team and role; most teams meet once or twice per quarter for 2-4 consecutive days at a time.
What you'll love:
- Competitive Compensation (base + bonus & equity)
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with Health Savings Account contributions from Upstart
- Generous 401(k) plan with Upstart matching $2 for every $1 contributed, up to $15,000 per year
- 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
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At Upstart, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. The anticipated base salary for this position is expected to be within the below range. Your actual base pay will depend on your geographic location–with our “digital first” philosophy, Upstart uses compensation regions that vary depending on location. Individual pay is also determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
In addition, Upstart provides employees with target bonuses, equity compensation, and generous benefits packages (including medical, dental, vision, and 401k).
Upstart is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. Just as we are dedicated to improving access to affordable credit for all, we are committed to inclusive and fair hiring practices.
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing an application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please email [email protected]
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