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Upstart

Software Engineer – Site Reliability

Upstart

. Build and improve tooling, services, and automation for production-system reliability .

Posted 9/22/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $142,000 - $196,600 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in software engineering and site reliability engineering, with a strong focus on building automation, observability, and resiliency capabilities. Proficient in leveraging AI tools to enhance operational efficiency and incident response in cloud-native environments.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Software Development SkillsCloud Infrastructure ExperienceKubernetes ProficiencyObservability Platform ExperienceIncident Response Participation

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Hard Skills
PythonGoJavaScriptTypeScriptInfrastructure As CodeResiliency TestingDisaster RecoveryCapacity PlanningService Level ObjectivesProduction Software Development
Soft Skills
CollaborationTechnical Ambiguity NavigationIndependent Project Delivery
Tools & Technologies
AWSDatadogSumo LogicCloudWatchAI-Assisted Development Tools
Industry Keywords
Site Reliability EngineeringObservabilityProduction OperationsDistributed SystemsOperational Readiness

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudDistributed SystemsJavaScriptKubernetesPythonTypeScriptGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Build and improve tooling, services, and automation for production-system reliability
  • Develop shared observability capabilities for metrics, logs, traces, service health, and customer impact
  • Improve incident response and operational readiness through tooling, automation, standards, and production signals
  • Build resiliency capabilities to identify failure modes, reduce operational risk, and recover from infrastructure or application failures
  • Replace recurring manual operational work with durable software and automation
  • Use AI throughout software development and operational problem solving
  • Identify opportunities for AI-enabled capabilities that improve incident investigation, observability, reliability, and engineering efficiency
  • Independently deliver well-scoped engineering projects and contribute to technical design
  • Partner with product engineering, Cloud Platform, Delivery, Developer Platform, Security, and infrastructure teams

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 3+ years of professional experience in software engineering, site reliability engineering, or a related engineering discipline
  • Strong software development skills in one or more general-purpose programming languages such as Python, Go, JavaScript, or TypeScript
  • Experience designing, building, testing, and operating production software, internal tooling, or infrastructure
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, observability, monitoring, or production operations
  • Experience participating in on-call or incident response for production systems
  • Ability to independently deliver well-scoped engineering projects, navigate technical ambiguity, and collaborate across engineering teams
  • Experience using AI-assisted development tools across multiple stages of the software engineering lifecycle
  • Kubernetes, AWS, infrastructure as code, and cloud-native production environments are preferred
  • Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Sumo Logic, or CloudWatch is preferred
  • Experience with reliability practices such as service level objectives, capacity planning, resiliency testing, disaster recovery, or operational readiness is preferred

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Competitive compensation, including base pay, bonus opportunities, and annual equity grants that vest quarterly
  • 401(k) or Group Retirement Savings Plan with a company match of $2 for every $1 contributed, up to $15,000 annually
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with discounted stock purchase options for eligible employees (US only)
  • Medical, dental, vision, and wellness resources for US employees
  • Supplemental health coverage for Canada
  • Health Savings Account contributions for eligible plans (US only)
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • Paid time off, sick leave, and company holidays
  • Paid family and parental leave
  • Family-centered fertility, parenthood, and caregiving benefits
  • Employee Assistance Program with mental health support and life-centered resources
  • Financial planning tools and financial concierge service (US only)
  • Annual wellness allowance
  • Annual productivity allowance for relevant tools and resources
  • Team events, all-company updates, and employee resource groups
  • Catered lunches and stocked micro-kitchens at offices in the Bay Area, Austin, Columbus, and New York City