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 – 231kUnited StatesDevOps / SRERemote10+ YOE

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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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