Senior Software Engineer

Who are we? 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 risks. With UpGuard, organisations 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. Why are we hiring for this role? As engineers at UpGuard, we immerse ourselves in cybersecurity’s rapidly evolving and increasingly critical domain. Our focus is on surfacing data in intelligent and creative ways, to deliver integrated solutions that directly impact the security posture of our global customers. With the majority of the internet scanned across multiple vectors daily, the problems of high throughput, massive concurrency and big data are daily challenges. How we meet those challenges is evident in the engineers we hire.We are growing rapidly, and looking for talented Software Engineers who are naturally drawn to simplifying complex, web-scale problems in order to help us keep our customers safe. We take writing highly-performant, massively-scalable software seriously.

What will you accomplish?

Joining a small, high-performing product engineering team

Perform green-fields development as we build out new features on the platform

Have an immediate impact on the product set, with full ownership across the stack from frontend to backend, and right up to production DevOps (React, Go, Kubernetes, GCP)

Explore an interesting, challenging domain, mastering the fundamentals of cyber security and the internet

Do more than code – you will work with the team and our customers to drive product design and direction

Apply agile processes, with an adaptable and non-dogmatic approach

What do we need from you?

Excellent software design and development skills.

We want people that write reliable, well-thought-through code, including high-quality automated tests

Experience in building highly scalable software systemsThe ability to make pragmatic trade-offs in design and delivery

An interest in shaping product features

Collaboration: We are a tight-knit team that pushes each other to keep improving

Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience

What would give you an edge?

Experience in cybersecurity. If not, you’ll just need to be willing to learn

We use a modern stack – React, Go, and Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform – so experience in those technologies is a plus

Experience working on a SaaS product set

Experience working in an agile software development team

What’s in it for you?

Rapidly growing user base: Work directly with some of the world’s largest, fastest-growing, and most innovative companies

Interesting problems, at scale: Deeply explore the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity, with a platform processing billions of data points daily

Learn from industry-leading experts: Our security research has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, Engadget, Forbes, ZDNet, and The Guardian

Impact: See the impact of your work on a daily basis, with data and impact available on dashboards you have access to

Generous compensation: Competetive salary & stock options.

Great perks: Grocery and gym reimbursements, flexible work arrangements, learning and development stipend, and generous PTO package

My Startup Gig ran an independent review into life at UpGuard. To see what it’s like to work at UpGuard, check out their survey results here.Before starting work with us, you will need to undertake a national police history check and reference checks. Also please note that at this time, we cannot support candidates requiring visa sponsorship or relocation. UpGuard is an Equal Opportunity Employer and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Please note, at this time we can only support hiring for this role in Australia.