Senior Manager, Database Engineering
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Job Location:
San Mateo, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Upstart
Upstart is the leading AI lending marketplace partnering with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit. By leveraging Upstarts AI marketplace Upstart-powered banks and credit unions can have higher approval rates and lower loss rates across races ages and genders while simultaneously delivering the exceptional digital-first lending experience their customers demand. More than 80% of borrowers are approved instantly with zero documentation to upload.
Upstart is a digital-first company which means that most Upstarters live and work anywhere in the United States. However we also have offices in San Mateo California; Columbus Ohio; and Austin Texas.
Most Upstarters join us because they connect with our mission of enabling access to effortless credit based on true risk. If you are energized by the impact you can make at Upstart wed love to hear from you!
The Team
The Database Engineering team owns the reliability performance and scalability of the database systems that power Upstarts lending platform. Our environment is built primarily on Postgres and AWS RDS supporting mission-critical financial transactions at scale. The team develops tooling automation and best practices that ensure our databases remain secure resilient and efficient as the business grows.
As a Senior Database Engineering Manager youll lead this team of specialists helping define the long-term vision for database engineering at Upstart while ensuring operational excellence today. Youll partner with product engineering infrastructure and data teams to set standards solve complex scaling challenges and enable developers across the company to work more effectively with data.
Position Location - This role is available in the following locations: Remote
Time Zone Requirements - This team operates on the East/West Coast time zones.
Travel Requirements - This team has regular on-site collaboration sessions. These occur 2-4 days per Quarter at the one of our offices. If you need to travel to make these meetups Upstart will cover all travel related expenses.
How youll make an impact:
- Define the roadmap for database engineering ensuring our database infrastructure scales with Upstarts growth.
- Lead mentor and grow a team of Database Engineers fostering a culture of technical excellence and collaboration.
- Partner with application and data engineering teams to establish standards for database design schema governance and query optimization.
- Drive initiatives to improve availability security and performance across all production and non-production database environments.
- Champion automation and tooling that reduce operational overhead increase observability and improve developer self-service.
- Act as a thought partner to engineering leadership on database strategy scaling and cost efficiency.
What were looking for:
Minimum Requirements
- 3 years of people and team management experience and 8 years of experience in database engineering or DBA roles.
- Deep expertise in Postgres including extensions performance tuning and replication.
- Experience designing and supporting high-volume OLTP systems.
- Strong background with AWS (RDS EC2 IAM VPC S3) and infrastructure automation.
- Proficiency with Python or another scripting language for database automation and tooling.
- Strong communication skills and proven ability to collaborate across engineering product and operations teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Clickhouse DataDog DBM or other distributed database technologies.
- Familiarity with database scalability solutions in cloud environments.
- Experience in financial services fintech or other highly regulated industries.
- Background managing mission-critical systems with high uptime requirements.
What youll love
- Competitive Compensation (base bonus & equity)
- Comprehensive medical dental and vision coverage with Health Savings Account contributions from Upstart
- 401(k) with 100% company match up to $4500 and immediate vesting and after-tax savings
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Life and disability insurance
- Generous holiday vacation sick and safety leave
- Supportive parental family care and military leave programs
- Annual wellness technology & ergonomic reimbursement programs
- Social activities including team events and onsites all-company updates employee resource groups (ERGs) and other interest groups such as book clubs fitness investing and volunteering
- Catered lunches snacks & drinks when working in offices
At Upstart your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. The anticipated base salary for this position is expected to be within the below range. Your actual base pay will depend on your geographic locationwith our digital first philosophy Upstart uses compensation regions that vary depending on location. Individual pay is also determined by job-related skills experience and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
In addition Upstart provides employees with target bonuses equity compensation and generous benefits packages (including medical dental vision and 401k).
Upstart is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to ensuring that underrepresented classes receive better access to affordable credit and are just as committed to embracing diversity and inclusion in our hiring practices. We celebrate all cultures backgrounds perspectives and experiences and know that we can only become better together.
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing an application interviewing completing any pre-employment testing or otherwise participating in the employee selection process please email
Senior Manager
Key Skills
- Data Center Experience
- ArcGIS
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Construction Estimating
- Go
- Mathcad
- React
- Redux
- AWS
- Software Development
- Auto Estimating
- Distributed Systems
About Company
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