Key skills
Kubernetes (EKS)AWS infrastructureVPC designIAMTerraformAWS CDKGitOps workflowsArgoCDTechnical decision influenceAIMLAWSKubernetesEKSEnvoyGitOpsIstioService MeshCloudflareCloud Security
About this role
Upstart is a leading AI lending marketplace focused on reducing the cost and complexity of borrowing for Americans. The DevOps Engineer will work within the Cloud Platform team to enhance the shared cloud infrastructure, ensuring reliability and scalability while collaborating with various teams to optimize performance and developer experience.
Responsibilities:
- 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
Requirements:
- 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)