[Remote] Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Delivery
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Upstart is a leading AI lending marketplace focused on reducing the cost and complexity of borrowing for all Americans. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for the Delivery team who will lead efforts to improve the reliability, speed, and usability of Upstart's software delivery platform, driving high-impact improvements to developer workflows and ensuring systems are scalable and easy to operate.
Responsibilities
- Manage and develop a team focused on CI/CD, service lifecycle tooling, and developer experience
- Drive execution against clear priorities with consistent, high-quality delivery
- Establish strong engineering practices across reliability, testing, and observability
- Build a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and pragmatic decision-making
- Improve build and deployment workflows to increase speed and reduce friction
- Drive adoption of standardized deployment patterns across services
- Simplify and modernize delivery infrastructure while maintaining stability
- Ensure systems are scalable, secure, and resilient
- Enable self-service workflows for service creation, deployment, and platform integrations
- Reduce manual coordination, support tickets, and reliance on tribal knowledge
- Partner with stakeholders to identify pain points and prioritize high-leverage improvements
- Contribute to the engineering portal as the central interface for service lifecycle operations
- Embed observability and operational standards into delivery workflows
- Ensure systems support safe, auditable, and predictable releases
- Reduce toil and improve system health through targeted improvements
Skills
- 5+ years of engineering management experience
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering
- Strong technical background in CI/CD systems, cloud infrastructure such as AWS, and distributed systems
- Ability to define clear team charters and execute with speed and alignment
- Track record of hiring, mentoring, and retaining high-performing engineers
- Execution-focused leadership with a track record of predictable delivery
- Technical depth to guide architectural decisions and trade-offs
- Systems thinking across reliability, scalability, and developer experience
- Strong cross-functional collaboration
- Experience with managing large-scale CI/CD systems such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions
- Experience building or improving self-service developer platforms
- Familiarity with microservices architectures and service lifecycle management
- Experience supporting platform or architectural transitions
- Strong product mindset when building internal tools
Benefits
- Target bonuses
- Equity compensation
- Generous benefits packages (including medical, dental, vision, and 401k)
- Competitive compensation, including base pay, bonus opportunities, and annual equity grants that vest quarterly
- Retirement benefits to help you plan for the future, including a 401(k) or Group Retirement Savings Plan with a company match of $2 for every $1 contributed, up to $15,000 annually (USD in the US, CAD in Canada)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with discounted stock purchase options for eligible employees (US only)
- Comprehensive health coverage designed to support you and your family, including medical, dental, vision, and wellness resources for US and supplemental health coverage for Canada.
- Health Savings Account contributions from Upstart for eligible plans (US only)
- Income protection benefits, including life insurance and disability coverage for added financial security
- Paid time off, sick leave, and company holidays, in line with local requirements
- Paid family and parental leave to support caregiving and major life moments (duration varies by country)
- Family-centered benefits to support fertility, parenthood, and caregiving needs
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offering mental health support and life-centered resources
- Financial wellness resources, including access to financial planning tools and a financial concierge service (US Only)
- Annual wellness allowance to support your physical and emotional well-being and personal development, based on what matters most to you
- Annual productivity allowance to invest in relevant tools and resources you need to do your best work, no matter where you work from
- Connection and community through team events, all-company updates, and employee resource groups (ERGs)
- Onsite perks, including catered lunches and fully stocked micro-kitchens when working from one of our offices in the Bay Area, Austin, Columbus, and New York City (opening Summer 2026!)
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