Senior/Staff Platform Engineer
Sydney / Melbourne / Hobart / Brisbane
Product – Platform Engineering /
Full-time /
Remote
Who are we?
UpGuard’s mission is to make life easier for security teams. We meticulously 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 at UpGuard comprises of our Product Management, Product Support, Engineering, Design, Data Leaks Detection, and Third Party Risk Management Services. Our Product 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. 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.
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. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced platform engineer who’s excited by the chance to help shape a new platform engineering function. You’ll have the autonomy and influence to define foundational systems, drive engineering best practices, and build the internal platforms that will 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 strong 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 modern CI/CD pipelines
- A practical approach to cloud cost optimisation, with experience in identifying and implementing efficiency improvements
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, especially when working across engineering, security, and product teams
- Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action in fast-moving or formative 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
- Strong backend engineering skills (we use 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: use this for financial, physical and mental wellbeing (all regions)
- 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 (all regions)
- $1500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance: to support your career development all team members will be able to expense development opportunities against this allowance (all regions)
- Generous Annual Leave/PTO allowances: time to recharge your batteries (all regions)
- 18 weeks paid Parental Leave: irrespective of parenting role (all regions)
- Personal Leave allowance: this includes sick & carer’s leave (all regions)
- Fully remote working environment: whilst we have physical offices in Sydney & Hobart, we do not mandate compulsory attendance (all regions)
- Top spec hardware: all team members will be provided with top-spec laptops for their role (all regions)
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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. Also please note that at this time, we cannot support candidates requiring visa sponsorship or relocation.
