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80%
of similar roles. Most pay
$142,175–$220,450
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$233k
versus about
$181k
for comparable roles.
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About Upstart
Upstart is an AI lending platform that partners with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit using non-traditional variables.
Upstart currently has
40 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$177,200–$245,400
across 40 roles with salary data.
As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer on Upstart’s SRE team, you will lead the adoption of best practices and mentor engineers across various disciplines to enhance operational excellence. Your daily responsibilities include defining long-term reliability strategies, championing distributed tracing and real user monitoring, and building self-healing systems to minimize downtime. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams such as Product Engineering and DevOps to drive enterprise-wide improvements in incident response processes and engineering velocity. The ideal candidate has a balanced background in Software Engineering and SRE, proficiency in Python, Go, and JavaScript/TypeScript, and expertise with observability tools like Datadog and Prometheus. Additionally, experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK) and hands-on work with large-scale or ML-related incidents is preferred, along with a strong track record of influencing technical and operational roadmaps through data-driven insights.