Upside

4 weeks ago

Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure

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Job Summary

Lead a senior infrastructure team responsible for Upside’s core cloud platform, security, networking, and foundational services. Balance hands-on technical work with strategic leadership, driving high-impact programs like cell-based architecture and AI-assisted deployment tooling, while ensuring secure, cost-efficient AWS environments and a superior developer experience.

Location: Austin, Chicago, New York, Washington

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

•Lead a senior team of infrastructure engineers, providing technical guidance, career support, and the execution leadership needed to ship high-impact platform work reliably and on time.
•Own the technical roadmap for Infrastructure, including two major programs launching in 2026: a cell-based architecture initiative to decompose the single-region AWS environment into isolated, market-based cells; and AI-assisted deployment tooling to enable engineers across R&D to deploy AWS infrastructure via guided automation.
•Ensure Upside's AWS environments are secure, cost-efficient, and production-ready, with strong foundations in IAM, networking, secrets management, encryption, and compliance-aware controls.
•Drive developer experience improvements across CI/CD, observability, and platform tooling, making it easier and safer for product and data teams to ship, monitor, and operate services independently.
•Drive operational excellence across reliability, scalability, and performance; including capacity planning, incident management, on-call health, and post-incident learning.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 185,000 - 215,000 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kEquityParental LeavePaid LeaveLearning BudgetFlexible Work

Key Requirements

•5–7 years of hands-on AWS experience with compute (EC2, Lambda), databases (RDS, DynamoDB), IAM, networking, and secrets management.
•2–3 years managing infrastructure, platform, or SRE engineers; ideally a senior team where technical credibility mattered as much as people skills.
•Strong command of Terraform for IaC and GitHub Actions or equivalent for deployment pipelines.
•Background in DevOps or site reliability engineering; you understand what it means to operate systems at scale and build cultures of operational excellence.
•Experience in environments with real security, compliance, or data sensitivity requirements; fintech, regulated industries, or companies handling sensitive consumer or financial data.

Experience:5-7 yearsCloudInfrastructureAWSSREDevOps

Skills:CloudInfrastructureAWSTerraformGitHub ActionsCI/CDObservabilitySecurity

Languages:English

Tech Stack:AWSEC2LambdaRDSDynamoDBIAMTerraformGitHub Actions

Company Brief

Upside

Operates a consumer cashback and rewards platform that offers drivers and shoppers rebates on fuel, groceries, and dining by partnering with merchants and payment networks to deliver targeted offers and payments-driven incentives.

Industry: Payments

Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)

Growth: Scaleup

Headquarters: Washington, D.C., United States

Website LinkedIn

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Upside

4 weeks ago

Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 3 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: Austin, Chicago, New York, Washington

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

•Lead a senior team of infrastructure engineers, providing technical guidance, career support, and the execution leadership needed to ship high-impact platform work reliably and on time.
•Own the technical roadmap for Infrastructure, including two major programs launching in 2026: a cell-based architecture initiative to decompose the single-region AWS environment into isolated, market-based cells; and AI-assisted deployment tooling to enable engineers across R&D to deploy AWS infrastructure via guided automation.
•Ensure Upside's AWS environments are secure, cost-efficient, and production-ready, with strong foundations in IAM, networking, secrets management, encryption, and compliance-aware controls.
•Drive developer experience improvements across CI/CD, observability, and platform tooling, making it easier and safer for product and data teams to ship, monitor, and operate services independently.
•Drive operational excellence across reliability, scalability, and performance; including capacity planning, incident management, on-call health, and post-incident learning.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 185,000 - 215,000 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kEquityParental LeavePaid LeaveLearning BudgetFlexible Work

Key Requirements

•5–7 years of hands-on AWS experience with compute (EC2, Lambda), databases (RDS, DynamoDB), IAM, networking, and secrets management.
•2–3 years managing infrastructure, platform, or SRE engineers; ideally a senior team where technical credibility mattered as much as people skills.
•Strong command of Terraform for IaC and GitHub Actions or equivalent for deployment pipelines.
•Background in DevOps or site reliability engineering; you understand what it means to operate systems at scale and build cultures of operational excellence.
•Experience in environments with real security, compliance, or data sensitivity requirements; fintech, regulated industries, or companies handling sensitive consumer or financial data.

Experience:5-7 yearsCloudInfrastructureAWSSREDevOps

Skills:CloudInfrastructureAWSTerraformGitHub ActionsCI/CDObservabilitySecurity

Languages:English

Tech Stack:AWSEC2LambdaRDSDynamoDBIAMTerraformGitHub Actions

Company Brief

Upside

Industry: Payments

Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)

Growth: Scaleup

Headquarters: Washington, D.C., United States

Website LinkedIn