Upstart
Principal Platform Security Engineer
US
UTC-10 to UTC-5 $191k to $264k per year Full time
Lead or Staff
- Where you can live
- United States | Remote
- Working hours
- Overlap with UTC-10 to UTC-5
- Salary
- USD 190,600 to 263,900 per year
- Posted
- February 10, 2026
Summary from the posting
Upstart’s Infrastructure Security team is focused on securing the cloud, compute, platform, and deployment layers that run our products. We believe security should enable fast, safe delivery through strong engineering fundamentals, automation, and secure-by-default patterns. Our team partners closely with platform, infrastructure, SRE, product engineering, risk, and compliance teams to reduce risk in areas such as cloud IAM, Kubernetes and container security, network controls, secrets management, infrastructure-as-code, production vulnerability management, and AI-assisted developer workflows.
This is a short summary. The full description, requirements and the application form are on Upstart's own career page.