Software Engineer

UpGuard; City of Hobart; Remote; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Off-sites and events

Stock options

Annual leave + extra days

Parental leave

Personal leave

Lifestyle subsidy

Learning & development allowance

Wfh setup

Job summary

UpGuard is building an AI-driven CRPM platform that helps security teams manage cyber risk at scale. As a Software Engineer, you’ll work across the stack—from React/TypeScript UI to Go services and Postgres, deployed on Kubernetes in Google Cloud Platform.

You’ll collaborate with senior engineers, own features end-to-end, and contribute to secure, reliable systems from day one. You don’t need cybersecurity experience, but curiosity about it is essential.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• Strong TypeScript and React.
• A backend language you’re productive in (Go).
• Relational database skills (Postgres).
• AI coding tools as your default workflow, and the judgment to review and own what they produce.
• Pragmatic trade-offs: weigh technical quality against business needs.
• Low ego, high care: focused on product and customer.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship customer-facing features across React front end and Go services.
• Own well-scoped work end to end with guidance from seniors.
• Help keep the platform fast and reliable as we scale.
• Participate in thoughtful code reviews and technical discussions.
• Go deep on cybersecurity and grow toward senior levels with expanding scope.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Go

SQL

Tools

Postgres

Kubernetes

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

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 isn’t just growth; it’s 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 aren’t just building another tool; we’re defining a category. We provide the autonomy to ship world-class technology and the resources to do it at a global scale.

About The Role

We're hiring a Software Engineer to join our Product Engineering team. You'll work across the whole stack: customer-facing features in React and TypeScript, Go services that process security data at internet scale, and the plumbing that keeps it all secure and reliable. You'll ship real work in your first weeks with a senior engineer as your buddy, and your scope will grow as you're ready for it. You don't need to know cybersecurity yet, but you do need to be curious about it.

You’ll join one of our 11 (and growing) Product Engineering squads, most of which have a product manager, designer and technical lead alongside the engineers.

Our stack is React and TypeScript on the front end, Go services with Postgres as our primary database, running on Kubernetes via Google Cloud Platform.

Our engineers work with agentic coding tools, mostly Claude Code and Cursor, and a growing part of the product is LLM-backed. You'll work this way from day one, and we'll want your ideas on what to automate next, from how we write code to how we test, review, ship and run it.

What You'll Do

• Build and ship customer-facing features across our React front end and Go services
• Own well-scoped work end to end, with senior engineers to pair with and review your designs
• Help keep the platform fast and reliable as we scale
• Give and receive thoughtful code review and join the technical discussions that shape how we build
• Go deep on the cybersecurity domain; it’s one of the best parts of the job
• Grow toward senior, with increasing scope as you’re ready and a manager focused on getting you there

What We’re Looking For

• Typically 2+ years of relevant engineering experience
• Strong TypeScript and React
• A backend language you’re productive in (we use Go)
• Solid relational database skills (we use Postgres)
• AI coding tools as your default workflow, and the judgment to review and own what they produce
• Pragmatic trade-offs: you weigh technical quality against what the business needs now
• Low ego, high care: you’re in it for the product and the customer, not just the code

What will give you an edge?

• Cybersecurity experience
• Running services on Kubernetes, ideally on GCP

What’s in it for you?

We’re fully remote, and we’d rather spend on things people actually use than on perks that look good in a job ad.

• Fully remote and flexible: work from anywhere in Australia. We have offices in Sydney and Hobart, a co-working allowance everywhere else, and no attendance mandate.
• Real face time: two off-sites a year, one with your squad and one with the wider Product team or the whole company, plus city-based socials in between, with colleagues who like spending time together.
• Stock options: every engineer gets equity, so you share in UpGuard’s growth.
• 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 (all regions)
• Personal Leave allowance: this includes sick and carer’s leave.
• $[amount] monthly lifestyle subsidy for your financial, physical and mental wellbeing.
• US$1,500 annual learning and development allowance, spent on whatever helps your career, not just courses.
• WFH set-up allowance to get your home office right in your first three months.

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!

As an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affivative 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.

Please Note:

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