Software Engineer

UpGuard; City of Melbourne; Remote; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lifestyle subsidy

WFH setup allowance

Learning & Development allowance

Annual leave + UpGuardian days

Parental Leave

Job summary

UpGuard is hiring a Software Engineer to join our Product Engineering team. You’ll work across the stack with React and TypeScript on the front end, Go services on the back end, and PostgreSQL as our primary database, all running on Kubernetes via Google Cloud Platform.

You’ll collaborate with a senior engineer, own end-to-end features, and continuously improve security, reliability, and performance as the team grows. Remote-ready, flexible setup, and AI-assisted development are core to the role.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Go

PostgreSQL

AI coding tools

Problem solving

Tools

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Go

React

TypeScript

Claude Code

Cursor

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?

• 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 & carer’s 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
• Stock Options: Share in UpGuard's growth and long-term success.

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!

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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.

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