Senior Engineering Manager, Delivery

Upstart

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Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Canada
Salary
$195,300–$270,400 / yr
Posted
141 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Dec 8, 2026

Market check

Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $213k
This role $233k
$135k most similar roles pay here $285k

This role pays more than 67% of similar roles. Most pay $166,084–$259,550 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $233k versus about $213k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 73 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $166,900–$230,450 across 72 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Engineering Manager, Delivery

Senior Engineering Manager, Delivery leads a team responsible for ensuring engineers can ship software to production safely, quickly, and predictably. This role involves managing the strategy and execution of deployment infrastructure, progressive delivery capabilities, and the modernization of release workflows for both distributed services and the company's monolith. The manager will focus on reducing manual intervention by building automated safeguards, standardizing deployment patterns, and improving observability across the organization. Key technical requirements include experience with deployment systems, release automation, production infrastructure, and cloud-native platforms like Kubernetes and AWS. Candidates should be proficient in tools such as Argo CD or Spinnaker while managing complex transitions for large-scale systems. The role addresses the critical challenge of balancing rapid engineering velocity with high reliability and safety during the promotion of software into production environments.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in Remote?

Median $235250 from 43 postings across 20 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Manage and develop a team focused on deployment infrastructure, release automation, and engineering velocity.
  • Define the roadmap, ownership model, and measurable outcomes for the Delivery function.
  • Standardize deployment and release patterns across both modern services and the company's monolith.
  • Implement automated safeguards such as progressive delivery, canary releases, and signal-driven production promotion.
  • Build self-service workflows to allow engineering teams to deploy and roll back releases independently.
  • Improve deployment observability to ensure engineers can monitor release health and impact in real time.
  • Maintain operational ownership of critical systems while reducing manual gates and recurring deployment toil.
  • Partner with SRE and Platform teams to ensure infrastructure is secure, resilient, and scalable.

What we're looking for

  • Must have at least 5 years of engineering management experience.
  • Must have at least 7 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, release engineering, or platform engineering.
  • Requires significant technical experience with deployment systems, release automation, progressive delivery, or production infrastructure.
  • Must have experience managing critical internal platforms for large engineering organizations.
  • Requires a strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and production operations.
  • Must demonstrate the ability to translate strategy into focused, capacity-aware execution plans and measurable outcomes.
  • Experience leading modernization while maintaining stability of business-critical legacy systems is required.
  • Proven track record of hiring, developing, and retaining high-performing engineers and technical leaders.

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