Senior DevOps Engineer, Ephemeral Infrastructure

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 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; and Austin, Texas.

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!

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. Dev Ops 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.

• 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

• 5+ years of experience in a Dev Ops/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

• 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 Dev Ops expertise across scripting, IaC, automation, configuration management, and container orchestration
• Hands-on experience with tools like Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Artifactory, Harness, or similar platforms

This role is available in the following locations:
Remote-United States

The team operates on the East/West coast time zones.

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 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.

• Competitive Compensation (base + bonus & equity)
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with Health Savings Account contributions from Upstart
• 401(k) with 100% company match up to $4,500 and immediate vesting and after-tax savings
• 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…