Senior Security Engineering Manager, Enterprise Security

About Upstart

At Upstart, we’re united by a mission that matters: to radically reduce the cost and complexity of borrowing for all Americans. Every day, we bring creativity, experimentation, and advanced AI to reshape access to credit, helping millions move forward financially with clarity and confidence.

As the leading AI lending marketplace, we partner with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit through technology that’s both radically intelligent and deeply human. Our platform runs over one million predictions per borrower using more than 1,800 signals, powering smarter, fairer decisions for millions of customers. But the numbers only hint at the impact. Every idea, every voice, and every contribution moves us closer to a world where credit never stands between people and their financial progress.

We’re proudly digital-first, giving most Upstarters the flexibility to do their best work from wherever they thrive, alongside teammates across 80+ cities in the US and Canada. Digital-first doesn’t mean distant. We’re intentional about in-person connection through team onsites, planning sessions, and moments that spark creativity and trust. And whether you choose to work primarily from home or collaborate in-person from one of our offices in Columbus, Austin, the Bay Area, or New York City (opening Summer 2026), you’ll have the support to work in the way that works best for you.

If you’re energized by tackling meaningful problems, excited to innovate with purpose, and motivated by work that truly matters, we’d love to hear from you.

Upstart’s Security Engineering team protects Upstart’s people, systems, products, and data by building and operating security capabilities that reduce risk across the company. The team works across enterprise security, security operations, and detection security engineering to strengthen Upstart’s security posture through scalable controls, effective monitoring and response, secure tooling, automation, and cross-functional security programs.

As a Senior Security Manager for Enterprise Security Engineering at Upstart, you will lead a team responsible for building and maturing security programs across enterprise security, security operations, and detection engineering. You will help define how Upstart identifies, prioritizes, prevents, detects, and responds to security risks across corporate systems, cloud environments, business applications, endpoints, identity platforms, and critical security workflows.

This leader will shape a security engineering culture that prioritizes proactive and preventative controls over purely reactive response. By investing in durable controls, automation, detection coverage, and early risk reduction, the team can reduce costly incidents, minimize operational disruption, and focus its time on the highest-impact security risks. You will partner closely with Engineering, IT, Legal, Compliance, Risk, and business leaders to mature Upstart’s security capabilities and ensure security priorities are aligned with company goals.

• Lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution for security engineering programs across enterprise security, security operations, and detection security engineering.
• Manage, coach, and develop a team of security professionals, ensuring the team has clear priorities, measurable goals, effective operating rhythms, and opportunities for career growth.
• Build and mature proactive and preventative security controls across corporate systems, cloud environments, identity platforms, endpoints, SaaS applications, and security operations workflows.
• Improve Upstart’s ability to detect, investigate, and respond to threats by strengthening detection coverage, alert quality, logging strategy, response playbooks, automation, and operational processes.
• Drive cross-functional security initiatives across Engineering, IT, Compliance, Legal, Risk, and business teams, aligning security priorities with company objectives, risk tolerance, and operational needs.
• Establish and report on meaningful security engineering and operations metrics, including program health, control effectiveness, detection and…