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Senior/Staff Platform Engineer

2 weeks ago
Australia, New Zealand
Full-time
Senior
Platform Engineer
Software Development
CI/CD GCP GitOps Go Kubernetes PostgreSQL Secrets Management Terraform
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UpGuard

UpGuard

UpGuard is a cybersecurity ratings platform based in Sydney, Australia, specializing in third-party risk management and attack surface monitoring to prevent data breaches and enhance IT security.

Professional Services
51-250
Founded 2012
$47M raised
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Description

  • Champion a platform-as-a-product mindset by gathering engineering feedback and improving the developer experience.
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure on Google Cloud.
  • Collaborate with developers to streamline local development and CI/CD workflows.
  • Evolve and maintain observability capabilities, including monitoring, logging, and alerting.
  • Implement secure-by-default patterns for networking, secrets management, IAM, and workload isolation.
  • Accelerate adoption of infrastructure-as-code and GitOps for consistent and auditable infrastructure changes.
  • Drive platform best practices and influence the engineering roadmap as the platform function grows.
  • Improve reliability and operational efficiency across product engineering teams.
  • Support internal platform adoption and enable engineering teams to ship more effectively.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech-centric, ideally product-driven companies.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform or OpenTofu.
  • Experience working on a major cloud platform, ideally Google Cloud.
  • Strong software engineering foundation with a developer-first mindset.
  • Hands-on experience with containerization, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience improving developer experience through better tooling, streamlined workflows, and documentation-first practices.
  • Experience with relational database design, performance tuning, and operations at scale, ideally PostgreSQL.
  • Experience scaling infrastructure for multi-region architectures and growing engineering teams is preferred.
  • Strong backend engineering skills, particularly in Go, are preferred.
  • Experience with cloud cost optimisation and identifying efficiency improvements is preferred.
  • Experience building internal platforms as products, including roadmap definition and developer enablement, is preferred.
  • Practical experience in product security and shifting security left is preferred.

Benefits

  • Monthly lifestyle subsidy for financial, physical, and mental well-being.
  • WFH setup allowance within the first 3 months.
  • $1,500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance.
  • Annual leave plus two additional UpGuardian leave days.
  • 18 weeks paid parental leave, regardless of parenting role.
  • Personal leave allowance covering sick and carer’s leave.
  • Fully remote working environment, with no mandatory office attendance.
  • Top-spec hardware provided for the role.
  • Paid generative AI tool subscriptions to support work.

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