Software Engineer

Overview

Software Engineer (Multiple Levels) role at UpGuard. We are hiring engineers at multiple levels to join our Product Engineering team as we scale rapidly and sustain strong growth.

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 comprises Product Management, Product Support, Engineering, Design, Data Leaks Detection, and Third Party Risk Management Services. The team's vision is to be a leader in the Cyber VRM category by providing a best-in-class SaaS platform for managing third-party risk and external attack surface, building a product that users love and rely on, and continually improving.

About The Role

We're hiring engineers at multiple levels to join our Product Engineering team as we continue to scale rapidly and sustain strong growth. As Software Engineers at UpGuard, we immerse ourselves in cybersecurity, focusing on presenting data in intelligent, creative ways and crafting integrated solutions that influence the security posture of our global customers. We address challenges such as high throughput, massive concurrency, and big data on a daily basis. In this role, you'll work within a cross-functional team that values iteration, collaboration, and speed, delivering customer value quickly while ensuring security and reliability. We value clean code, thoughtful design, and engineers who care about the product as much as the technology it is built on.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, and designers to create world-class products.
• Own and develop new customer-facing features end-to-end.
• Improve system reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Contribute to code reviews, technical discussions and architectural decisions.
• Explore an interesting, challenging domain, mastering the fundamentals of cybersecurity and the internet.

What We're Looking For

• 4+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech-centric and product-driven companies
• Curious about exploring new technologies, particularly AI and LLMs, to enhance both developer productivity and customer experience
• Experience with JavaScript, React, and other web technologies
• Proficiency with a backend language (we use Go)
• Proficiency with relational databases (we use Postgres)
• Excited to help shape product features that improve user experience and drive impact
• Able to make pragmatic trade-offs in design and delivery, balancing technical quality with business needs

What Will Give You An Edge

• Experience in cybersecurity. If not, you'll just need to be willing to learn
• Comfortable building complex applications and systems from the ground up in collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Care deeply about user experience and are motivated by building products that make a meaningful impact for customers
• Have a humble attitude and a strong desire to contribute to the team's success
• Experience with React, Go, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud Platform is a plus

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 for financial, physical, and mental wellbeing
• WFH setup allowance to create the right working environment
• $1500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance to support career development
• Generous Annual Leave/PTO allowances
• 18 weeks paid Parental Leave (irrespective of parenting role)
• Personal Leave allowance (sick & carer's leave)
• Fully remote working environment; offices in Sydney & Hobart but no mandatory attendance
• Top-spec hardware provided for your role

UpGuard is a Certified Great Place to Work in the US, Australia, UK and India. 99% of team members agree that UpGuard is a great place to work.

As an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

For applications to positions in the United States, we can hire in: CA, MD, MA, IL, OR, WA, CO, TX, FL, PA, LA, MO, or DC.

Before starting work, you will need to undertake a national police history check and reference checks. We cannot support visa sponsorship or relocation at this time.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting

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