Staff Product Security Engineer — Remote Cloud & AI

UpGuard Inc.

United States

Remote

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

WFH setup allowance
Lifestyle subsidy
Learning & Development allowance
Annual leave
Parental leave
Personal leave
Remote working environment
Top-spec hardware
Generative AI subsidy
Stock options

Job summary

UpGuard is seeking a Staff-level Product Security Engineer to own security standards across the product and cloud infrastructure. You will perform security reviews, drive threat modelling, and build AI-powered tooling to shift security left in the SDLC.

The role offers genuine autonomy with executive backing, and fully remote work with optional offices in select locations. You will collaborate with product engineering and platform teams to secure CI/CD pipelines, production systems, and

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in security engineering, software security, or security operations.
  • Experience securing cloud environments (GCP preferred).
  • Familiarity with AI/LLM security risks is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Lead threat modelling and security reviews across product and cloud infra.
  • Build AI-driven security tooling and policy-as-code for shift-left security.
  • Design secure-by-default configurations for cloud and Kubernetes.
  • Own end-to-end vulnerability management with engineering teams.
  • Build scalable detection and response systems for incidents.
  • Partner with product engineering to deliver secure-by-design solutions.

Skills

Threat modelling
Security reviews
Cloud security
Kubernetes security
IAM security
Go backend
OWASP Top 10
IAC/ Terraform
Incident response

Tools

Terraform/OpenTofu
Kubernetes
CI/CD tooling

Job description

UpGuard is seeking a Staff-level Product Security Engineer to own security standards across the product and cloud infrastructure. You will perform security reviews, drive threat modelling, and build AI-powered tooling to shift security left in the SDLC.

The role offers genuine autonomy with executive backing, and fully remote work with optional offices in select locations. You will collaborate with product engineering and platform teams to secure CI/CD pipelines, production systems, and

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