Upstart
Senior Data Platform Engineer
$167K–$231K
United States +2 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Location
- United States
Remote
Remote - Experience
- 5+ years in infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or data platform engineering.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Own and improve Upstart’s Databricks Lakehouse infrastructure, focusing on security, compliance, cost efficiency, reliability, and developer experience.
What you'll do
- Manage Lakehouse infrastructure across environments, including infrastructure as code, access controls, environment isolation, disaster recovery, and security risk remediation.
- Automate audit evidence and close control gaps for OCC, SOX, and SOC audits; improve platform cost attribution, waste detection, and efficiency.
- Own platform components from design through production support, collaborate across engineering and compliance teams, and mentor other engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or data platform engineering.
- Hands-on experience operating a lakehouse or big data platform.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Python, infrastructure as code (Terraform or CDK), CI/CD, and Kubernetes.
Nice to have
- Experience implementing security and compliance controls in audited environments, or reducing cloud/data platform costs through analysis and optimization.
- Experience using AI coding assistants or agents to accelerate infrastructure development and operations.
Pay
$166,900 — $230,900 USD (base salary)
Tools
Databricks, Snowflake, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, AWS, Python, Terraform
AI focus
Use AI coding assistants or agents to accelerate infrastructure development and operations.
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