Upstart
Senior Engineering Manager, Site Reliability
$195K–$270K
United States +2 · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jul 17, 2026
- Location
- United States
Remote
Remote - Experience
- 5+ years of reliability engineering management and 7+ years of software engineering, site reliability engineering, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience.
About the job
Leads Upstart’s Site Reliability Engineering function, improving reliability, incident response, observability, operational readiness, and resilience across production services.
What you'll do
- Manage and develop the SRE team, set its strategy and roadmap, and deliver measurable outcomes.
- Improve incident management, response, postmortems, and systemic follow-through on incident learnings.
- Advance observability, reliability practices, and operational readiness in partnership with engineering teams.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of reliability engineering management experience and 7+ years in software engineering, SRE, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
- Hands-on SRE, Production Engineering, or equivalent experience operating and improving production systems; direct management of a reliability function.
- Strong technical depth in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, observability, and production operations; experience leading high-severity incident response.
- Track record of delivering measurable outcomes, developing high-performing engineers and leaders, and leading across teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with service-level objectives and error budgets; observability platforms such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, AWS, cloud-native architectures, or large-scale highly available systems.
Pay
$195,300 — $270,400 USD (base salary)
Tools
Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, AWS
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