Senior Delivery Platform & Release Manager

Upstart; United States; Remote; USD 195,300 - 270,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Annual equity grants

401k

Medical, dental, vision

Job summary

Upstart, a digital-first AI lending marketplace, seeks a Senior Engineering Manager for the Delivery team. You will lead deployment infrastructure, progressive delivery, and production promotion across both monolith and distributed services.

Deliver safer, faster, and more observable production releases with self-service workflows and guardrails. Ideal candidates bring extensive experience in deployment systems, cloud infrastructure, and modernization, plus strong leadership to mentor engineers

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering management experience.
• 7+ years of software engineering, DevOps, release engineering, platform engineering, or a related discipline.
• Significant technical experience with deployment systems, release automation, progressive delivery, or production infrastructure.
• Experience managing critical internal platforms used to release software across a large engineering organization.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, production operations, and software-release risk.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into focused, capacity-aware execution plans and measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team focused on deployment infrastructure, release automation, monolith delivery, and engineering velocity.
• Own strategy for deployment infrastructure, progressive delivery, production promotion, rollback, and delivery capabilities for both monolith and services.
• Reduce manual gates and cross-team coordination; improve release observability and health signals.
• Build automated safeguards enabling teams to deploy independently while ensuring safety and reliability.
• Partner with Developer Platform, Cloud Platform, SRE and product engineering to align ownership and delivery.

Skills

Deployment infrastructure

Release automation

Progressive delivery

Production infrastructure

Monolith delivery

Modernization

Self-service releases

Observability

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Spinnaker

AWS

Tools

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Spinnaker

AWS

Job description

Upstart, a digital-first AI lending marketplace, seeks a Senior Engineering Manager for the Delivery team. You will lead deployment infrastructure, progressive delivery, and production promotion across both monolith and distributed services.

Deliver safer, faster, and more observable production releases with self-service workflows and guardrails. Ideal candidates bring extensive experience in deployment systems, cloud infrastructure, and modernization, plus strong leadership to mentor engineers