Upstart

Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Tooling

Upstart

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • California, Ohio, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $163,600 - $226,400 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

CloudGoJavaScriptKubernetesMicroservicesPrometheusPythonTerraformTypeScript

About the role

  • Embody and share SRE principles at Upstart
  • Exercise state-of-the-art SRE practices throughout the company
  • Uphold a culture of visibility, ownership, and responsibility around service reliability
  • Implement standards for monitoring microservices, web apps, mobile apps, databases, Kubernetes clusters, and machine learning platforms, in a fast-paced environment
  • Improve incident response practices, both within SRE and throughout the company
  • Automate away toil that make sense to be automated

Requirements

  • Minimum of 6 years combined experience between Software Engineering, Site Reliability, and/or DevOps Engineering including CI/CD, TDD, internal tooling, observability, and other agile development practices
  • Proficiency coding Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK, Cloudformation, etc.)
  • Software engineering background with experience building internal tooling from scratch, and other agile development techniques
  • Strong software design & architecture skills
  • Fundamentally sound with data structures & algorithms
  • Experience with on-call and incident management environments
  • Experience with observability, monitoring, and reporting tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, etc.)
  • Experience supporting SaaS software in a microservice-oriented cloud environment
  • Ability to work with multiple teams for enterprise-wide deliverables
  • Data/metrics-driven mindset
Benefits
  • 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 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

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
PythonGoJavaScriptTypeScriptTerraformCDKCloudformationCI/CDTDDdata structures
Soft skills
ownershipresponsibilityincident managementcollaborationdata-driven mindset