DevOps Engineer

Who you are

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience) and 3+ years of professional experience
• 3+ years of experience operating Kubernetes in production environments, including cluster networking, storage, and RBAC
• Proficiency with AWS infrastructure, including VPC design, networking, and IAM
• Proven expertise in implementing infrastructure-as-code using tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK
• Experience implementing GitOps workflows using tools such as ArgoCD or similar
• Ability to influence technical decisions across teams and drive adoption of platform standards
• Knowledge of service mesh technologies such as Istio or Envoy
• Experience designing or operating multi-cluster Kubernetes architectures
• Experience with cloud networking at scale, including ingress/egress or edge platforms (e.g., Cloudflare)
• Knowledge of cloud security, identity, and compliance frameworks (e.g., IAM, SOC 2, CIS benchmarks)

What the job involves

• Upstart’s Cloud Platform team sits within the Reliability organization and is responsible for building and operating the shared cloud infrastructure that powers all product and machine learning workloads
• The team owns core platform components across Kubernetes (EKS), AWS infrastructure, service mesh, identity, and developer tooling, enabling reliability, scalability, and security across the business
• As a DevOps Engineer (L4) at Upstart, you will help evolve this platform to support increasing scale and complexity
• You’ll partner closely with SRE, Delivery, InfoSec, and Product/ML teams to improve reliability, developer experience, and cost efficiency across a platform used by nearly every engineering team
• Design and operate a fleet of Kubernetes (EKS) clusters across production, staging, and ephemeral environments, ensuring reliability and high availability
• Evolve AWS infrastructure and network architecture (VPCs, subnets, IAM, account structure) to support scalable, multi-team workloads
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code and GitOps workflows using tools such as Terraform, CDK, and ArgoCD
• Improve platform reliability and performance by defining and driving SLOs, analyzing incidents, and implementing systemic fixes
• Participate in and help improve the on-call rotation, leading incident response and post-incident reviews to drive systemic platform improvements
• Partner with SRE, Delivery, InfoSec, and product/ML teams to land high-impact infrastructure changes and platform standards
• Drive improvements in developer experience by simplifying platform usage, reducing toil, and enabling faster product and ML development
• Contribute to cost efficiency initiatives by optimizing resource utilization across Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure

Benefits

• Comprehensive health plans
• 401k Plan
• Annual wellness reimbursement
• Disability insurance
• Generous vacation policy
• Flexible time off
• Parental leave
• Family forming benefits through Carrot
• Technology equipment budget
• Personal development budget
• Various clubs and extracurricular activities
• Catered lunches
• Fully stocked micro-kitchen