Principal Infrastructure Security Engineer
UpstartAI Lending company
United StatesLead
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Define and drive Upstart’s infrastructure security strategy.
- •Define and drive Upstart’s infrastructure security strategy, aligning secure-by-default principles with business priorities, regulatory expectations, and Upstart’s cloud-native engineering roadmap.
- •Key Responsibilities Define and drive Upstart’s infrastructure security strategy, aligning secure-by-default principles with business priorities, regulatory expectations, and Upstart’s cloud-native engineering roadmap.
- •Own the security roadmap for cloud, platform, compute, and deployment environments, partnering with infrastructure, platform, SRE, and product engineering leaders to reduce risk across multiple organizations.
- •Lead security architecture reviews for critical infrastructure initiatives, influencing technical decisions in areas such as cloud IAM, Kubernetes, container security, network segmentation, secrets management, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
- •Requirements Deep infrastructure security expertise.
- •Strong engineering judgment.
- •Ability to translate complex security risks into practical, high-impact improvements for the business.
- •Experience with cloud IAM, Kubernetes, container security, network controls, secrets management, infrastructure-as-code, production vulnerability management, and AI-assisted developer workflows.
- •Proven track record of leading cross-functional and cross-organizational efforts to reduce systemic infrastructure risk.
Required skills
AWSKubernetesCI/CDIAM
Domain expertise
fintech
Tech stack
AWSKubernetesCI/CDIAM