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UpstartUpstartUnited States

Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability

Senior SRE engineer builds tooling and automation to enhance production system reliability, monitoring microservices, Kubernetes, and ML platforms. Requires 6+ years in software/SRE/DevOps, proficiency in Python/Go, IaC, and observability tools.

167k – 231k/yr
Remote10+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

How you’ll make an impact

  • 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

What we’re looking for

Minimum 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, Sumologic, 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

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience with service mesh
  • Full Stack development skills
  • Experience building tooling for an observability platform
  • Experience leveraging LLM/GenAI to improve SRE efficiency and processes

Skills

Ruby on RailsReactAWSDockerGitHub ActionsDistributed SystemsService-Oriented ArchitectureCI/CDInfrastructure As CodeA/B Testing

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