**Senior DevOps Engineer, Auto Retail**

at Upstart Remote By leveraging Upstart's AI platform, Upstart-powered banks and credit unions can have higher approval rates and lower loss rates, while simultaneously delivering the exceptional digital-first lending experience their customers demand. Upstart's patent-pending platform is the first to receive a no-action letter from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau related to fair lending. Upstart not only supports a large remote workforce, but also has offices in San Mateo, CA; Columbus, OH; and Austin, TX. **About Upstart**

Upstart is a leading AI lending platform partnering with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit. As we transitioned to being a public company, were now poised to leverage our domain expertise and revolutionize every aspect of lending and credit risk evaluation. Weve recently expanded our offerings to include automobile refinancing and we plan to take on more verticals as the business grows.

Most Upstarters join us because they connect with our mission of enabling access to effortless credit based on true risk. If you are energized by the impact you can make at Upstart, wed love to hear from you!

**About Auto Retail**

Upstarts Auto Retail team is building the future for car buying. Were a fun-loving, hard working group of trail blazers who believe anything is possible with the right team. Offering a fully end-to-end digital retailing platform, including our leading AI lending technology, we are now better positioned than ever to deliver our mission of creating the worlds best car buying experience with cutting-edge auto-retail software, while enabling effortless credit based on true risk.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will own the deployment and operation of the Upstart Auto Retail production systems. Youll own and develop our AWS infrastructure, including pipelines, CI/CD workflows as well as observability of services on AWS. Youll also lead the way in building tooling and automation to monitor the health of our infrastructure and create a productive environment for other engineers. Youll have wide latitude in technology options and define our strategy for technology operations risk mitigation, which includes disaster planning and on-call procedures, and will report into the engineering team.

***Position Location*** **-** This role is available in the following locations: Remote or Columbus

***Time Zone Requirements*** **-** This team operates across all US time zones.

***Travel Requirements -*** This team has regular on-site collaboration sessions. These occur a few days per quarter at the San Mateo office. If you need to travel to make these meetups, Upstart will cover all travel related expenses.

**What we're looking for:**

* 5+ years of experience in a DevOps/SRE role, preferably at a startup using AWS,

* Good knowledge of fundamental AWS building blocks (EC2, ECS, CloudFront, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation),

* Experience in setting up and working with AWS security structures using Bastion Hosts, security groups, VPCs, etc.,

* Experience working in high-security / high-compliance environments, such as finance or healthcare

* Experience with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet),

* Experience with Docker and Kubernetes/Openshift,

* Relevant programming skills to set yourself up for success (bash scripting, Python),

* Ability to define high-level strategy for operations monitoring and risk mitigation, and

* Drive for interacting with a wide variety of teams and people to move the company as a whole forward.

**What youll love:**

* Competitive Compensation (base + bonus & equity)

* Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

* Personal Development and Technology & Ergonomic Budgets

* Life insurance and disability benefits

* Clubs and Activities (Game Nights, Fitstarters, Superwomen, Book Club, Investing Club, Money Discussions, Photography Club and Basketball teams)

* Generous vacation policy

* 401(k) and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

* Catered lunches + snacks & drinks

Upstart is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to ensuring that underrepresented classes receive better access to affordable credit, and are just as committed to embracing diversity and inclusion in our hiring practices. We celebrate all cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, and know that we can only become better together.

Location (City) * Location Preference *

As a digital-first company, we are providing our employees with the opportunity to work remotely across the US and/or from one of our physical office locations.

Please select from the list below your primary work location preference(s). Primary work location is defined as where you will spend more than 50% of your time working. Before making your selection(s), please check to make sure that the location is listed as an option in the jobs description above. Multiple selections can be made if multiple locations are available. Remote is considered a location.

San Mateo, CA

Columbus, OH

Austin, TX

Remote

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