Senior Platform Engineer

Who are we?

UpGuard’s mission is to protect the world’s data. We obsessively seek out elegant, robust ways to enable our customers to find, acknowledge, and remediate cyber risk. With UpGuard, organizations leverage our security expertise and software to automate what was once laborious, spreadsheet-driven processes–whether it's monitoring the attack surface of hundreds of vendors or assessing the security of their own infrastructure. UpGuard is used by some of the world’s largest, fastest-growing, and most innovative companies. 

Our Product team at UpGuard comprises 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.

Where does this role fit in?

The Platform Engineer will support our growing team of software engineers, owning our infrastructure and operations. As our first dedicated hire in this space, you will have the opportunity to drive the direction of our development platform and infrastructure. The role will focus on driving improvements, automation, and refining processes to enhance reliability, while responsibility for production stability will continue to be shared by the wider engineering team.

What will you do?

• Design, build, and maintain scalable production infrastructure on Google Cloud.
• Collaborate with developers to optimize development workflows and drive best practices.
• Lead infrastructure automation and maintain a security-first approach to cloud architecture.
• Ensure robust observability through monitoring, logging, and alerting systems and workflows.

What will you bring?

• Strong experience in IaC (preferably Terraform) on a cloud platform.
• A software engineering background.
• Understanding of security best practices in cloud infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to drive culture and best practices within cross-functional teams.
• Experience with containerization, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with optimizing cost efficiency in cloud environments.

What will give you an edge?

• Experience scaling infrastructure for growing engineering teams.
• Expertise in Postgres management and optimization.
• Experience building local development environments.
• Strong experience in backend development, particularly in Go.

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)
• Personal device security & online privacy protection subsidy: UpGuard provides team members with a paid subscription to personal device security & online privacy protection platform (all regions)
• Generative AI subsidy: UpGuard provides paid subscriptions for all team members to access generative AI tools to support their work (all regions)

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, DC or NV. 

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.