Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability
About the role
The Team
Upstart’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team owns the reliability, resiliency, and observability of Upstart’s production systems. The SRE team builds tooling and automation to monitor the health of our infrastructure and create a fast, reliable, and productive environment for other engineers and a world-class experience for our customers. SRE defines Upstart’s strategy for technology operations risk mitigation, which includes disaster planning and on-call procedures. We use data-driven approaches to drive our decisions, and provide reports and insights to the business to improve visibility into the system and customer experience.
As a Senior Software Engineer focused on Site Reliability Tooling, your work will directly impact the success of the SRE team and all of Upstart. Your expertise will inform the team’s direction, and your work with other SREs and Upstart engineers will make Upstart’s systems as effective as possible for our customers. SRE at Upstart is ever-changing, and you will be a primary contributor in shaping our future path.
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