Overview
UpGuard’s mission is to make life easier for security teams. We create robust solutions that enable our customers to identify, assess, and remediate cybersecurity risk across their attack surface, vendor ecosystem, workforce, and trust relationships. Our integrated cyber risk posture management platform combines comprehensive security ratings, instant risk assessments, templated security questionnaires, threat intelligence capabilities, and agentic AI to give organizations a holistic view of their risk surface.
Our Product team comprises Product Management, Product Support, Engineering, Design, Data Leaks Detection, and Third Party Risk Management Services. The team’s vision is to become the leader in the Cyber VRM category by providing a best-in-class SaaS platform for organizations to manage their third-party risk and external attack surface. The team aims to build a product that users love and rely on, and that regularly and consistently improves.
About The Role
As a Platform Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in enabling our product engineering teams to move faster and more safely. You’ll own the platforms, tools and infrastructure that power our development workflows, improving reliability, streamlining operations and enhancing the overall developer experience. This role sits at the heart of our engineering organisation, helping to scale our systems and practices as we grow. It is a unique opportunity to shape a new platform engineering function, with autonomy to define foundational systems, drive engineering best practices, and build internal platforms that support our next stage of growth.
What You’ll Do
- Champion a "platform as a product" mindset, regularly gathering feedback from engineering teams and iterating to improve the developer experience
- Design, build and maintain scalable, reliable infrastructure on Google Cloud to support our growing product needs
- Collaborate closely with developers to streamline local and CI/CD workflows, and champion platform best practices
- Evolve our observability stack – ensuring teams have the monitoring, logging and alerting they need to move quickly and confidently
- Implement and maintain secure-by-default patterns for networking, secrets management, IAM, and workload isolation
- Accelerate and complete the adoption of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and GitOps to achieve consistent and auditable infrastructure changes
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech-centric and product-driven companies
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (preferably Terraform/OpenTofu) on a major cloud platform (ideally Google Cloud)
- A solid software engineering foundation and a developer-first mindset
- Proven ability to influence engineering culture and drive best practices across cross-functional teams
- Hands-on experience with containerization, Kubernetes and contemporary CI/CD pipelines
- A practical approach to cloud cost optimisation, with experience in identifying and implementing efficiency improvements
- Solid collaboration and communication skills, especially when working across engineering, security, and product teams
- Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action in fast-moving environments
What Will Give You an Edge
- Experience scaling infrastructure to support multi-region architectures and growing engineering teams
- Experience with relational database design, performance tuning and operations at scale, ideally with PostgreSQL
- A track record of improving developer experience through better tooling, streamlined workflows, and a documentation-first culture
- Experience designing robust local development environments that mirror production
- Robust backend engineering skills (Go)
- Experience building internal platforms as products – with a focus on roadmap definition, adoption and developer enablement
- Practical experience in product security, including embedding security best practices early in the SDLC and shifting security left
Why You’ll Love It Here
- A strong engineering culture focused on learning, impact, and craftsmanship
- Opportunities to work on cutting-edge problems in security, AI, and scale
- Regular team off-sites, collaborative professional development, and a no-ego culture
What’s In It For You
- Monthly Lifestyle subsidy for financial, physical and mental wellbeing (all regions)
- WFH set-up allowance to help you create the right work environment (all regions)
- $1500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance to support career development (all regions)
- Generous Annual Leave/PTO allowances (all regions)
- 18 weeks paid Parental Leave (all regions)
- Personal Leave allowance including sick & carer’s leave (all regions)
- Fully remote working environment with optional offices in Sydney & Hobart (not mandating attendance)
- Top-spec hardware provided for your role (all regions)
UpGuard is a Certified Great Place to Work in the US, Australia, UK and India. We are an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.
For applications to positions in the United States, we currently hire in the following states: CA, MD, MA, IL, OR, WA, CO, TX, FL, PA, LA, MO, or DC. Before starting work, you will undertake a national police history check and reference checks. We cannot support candidates requiring visa sponsorship or relocation at this time.
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📌 Senior/Staff Platform Engineer
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