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SeniorStaff Platform Engineer

UpGuard

Job Location:

Sydney - Australia

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 19 June 2026 (30+ days ago)

Application Deadline: 16 September 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Who are we

At UpGuard we are replacing manual security bottlenecks with AI-driven precision. Fresh off a US$75M Series C we are scaling our infrastructure to process 100 billion risk signals daily. This isnt just growth; its a total reimagining of how the world manages cyber risk.

We build the Cyber Risk Posture Management (CRPM) platform that security teams actually love. By integrating security ratings threat intel and agentic AI we empower organisations to stay ahead of an ever evolving attack surface.

We arent just building another tool; were defining a category. We provide the autonomy to ship world-class technology and the resources to do it at a global scale.

Our Product team at UpGuard comprises our Product Management Product Support Engineering Design Data Leaks Detection and Third Party Risk Management Services. Our Product teams vision is to become the leader in the Cyber VRM category by providing a best-in-class SaaS platform for organisations to manage their third-party risk and external attack surface. Our purpose as a Product team is simply to build a product that enables this. We aim to build a product that users love and come to rely on and one that regularly and consistently improves.

Why are we hiring for this role

This is a rare opportunity to shape a platform engineering function from its early days. You wont be inheriting someone elses decisions. Youll be defining the foundational systems standards and internal platforms that UpGuards engineering organisation will build on for years.

As a Platform Engineer youll own the platforms tools and infrastructure that power our development workflows improving reliability streamlining operations and enhancing the developer experience across our product engineering teams. The function sits at the heart of our engineering organisation and youll have genuine autonomy and influence: defining the roadmap driving best practices and scaling our systems as we grow.

Were open to hiring at either the Senior or Staff level and well calibrate the level scope and compensation based on your experience.

What will you 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 youll bring

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (preferably Terraform/OpenTofu) on a major cloud platform (ideally Google Cloud)
5 years of relevant engineering experience at tech-centric and ideally product-driven companies
A strong software engineering foundation and a developer-first mindset
Hands-on experience with containerization Kubernetes and modern CI/CD pipelines
A track record of improving developer experience through better tooling streamlined workflows and a documentation-first culture
Experience with relational database design performance tuning and operations at scale ideally with PostgreSQL

What will give you an edge

Experience scaling infrastructure to support multi-region architectures and growing engineering teams
Strong backend engineering skills particularly in Go
A practical approach to cloud cost optimisation with experience in identifying and implementing efficiency improvements
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

Whats in it for you

Monthly Lifestyle subsidy: Use this for financial physical and mental well-being
WFH set-up allowance: To ensure you have the right environment to work in we will help you get set up within your first 3 months at UpGuard
$1500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance: To support your career development all team members will be able to expense development opportunities against this allowance
Annual leave: PTO plus two additional UpGuardian leave days to give you time to recharge your batteries.
18 weeks paid Parental Leave: Irrespective of parenting role
Personal Leave Allowance: This includes sick & carers leave
Fully remote working environment: While we have physical offices in Sydney & Hobart we do not mandate compulsory attendance
Top-spec hardware: All team members will be provided with top-spec laptops for their role
Generative AI subsidy: UpGuard provides paid subscriptions for all team members to access generative AI tools to support their work

#LI-BW1

UpGuard is a Certified Great Place to Work in the US Australia UK and India establishing its position as a leading global technology employer. 99% of team members agree that UpGuard is a great place to work apply now to find out why!

As 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 perception or identity national origin age marital status protected veteran status or disability status.

For applications to positions in the United States please note at this time we can only support hiring in the following US states: CA MD MA IL OR WA CO TX FL PA LA MO or DC.

Before starting work with us you will need to undertake a national police history check and reference checks.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

Required Experience:

Staff IC

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About Company

UpGuard

Third-party risk and attack surface management software. UpGuard is the best platform for securing your organization’s sensitive data. Our security ratings engine monitors millions of companies and billions of data points every day.

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