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# Senior Software Engineer at UpGuard Inc.

- **Company:** UpGuard Inc.
- **Location:** Sydney, Australia
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-22
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/upguard/93741912-bde8-442f-aaf6-53e793e707b9

## 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 Senior Software Engineer to own a feature area within our Product Engineering team. You'll be the engineer your product manager turns to for "is this possible, and how big is it", leading technical design for your area and seeing it through to production. You'll shape how your squad builds, mentor the engineers around you, and have real influence over what we ship for customers who depend on us to understand their cyber risk.

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

- Own a feature area end to end, from design conversations with product through to production and follow-up
- Lead technical design for your area and drive the architectural decisions within it
- Work with product and design to shape what we build: what's possible, what it costs, and what should come first
- Mentor the engineers around you and lift the quality of the squad's code and decisions
- Improve the reliability, scalability and performance of the systems you own
- Go deep on the cybersecurity domain and bring that understanding into what we build

## What we're looking for

- Typically 5+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech-centric, product-driven companies
- 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
- A track record of leading technical design for a feature area and seeing it through to production
- Experience mentoring engineers and lifting the quality of the code and decisions around you

What will give you an edge?

- Cybersecurity experience
- Running services on Kubernetes, ideally on GCP
- Building complex applications or systems from the ground up with a cross-functional team
- Owning a service in production: on-call, observability, and the judgment to know what to fix now and what can wait

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! Apply now to find out why!

As an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, 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.

Please Note: Not all roles can be performed from the United States. Please check your specific job listing to confirm its advertised location. If the role you are applying for is listed as based in the US, we are currently only able to support hiring in the following locations: CA, CO, FL, IL, MA, MD, MO, OR, PA, TX, WA, and DC.

Before starting work with us, you will need to undertake a national police history check and reference checks.

## About UpGuard Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: UpGuard is an AI-powered Cyber Risk Posture Management (CRPM) platform that helps organizations monitor, assess, and reduce cybersecurity risks across their vendors, attack surface, and workforce.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed, total funding $122.4M)
- **Headquarters**: Mountain View, California, United States (also offices in Sydney and Hobart, Australia)
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Daniel Bradbury (Co-Founder & CEO), Mike Baukes (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Cybersecurity, Risk Management, Third-Party Risk Management
- **Target customers**: B2B – mid-market to enterprise, with strong presence in financial services, technology, and healthcare
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Protecting the world’s data” and helping companies assess, measure, and reduce cybersecurity risks to make the internet safer

## Products & Services
- **Vendor Risk Management**: Continuous vendor monitoring, 360-degree assessments, and AI-powered workflows for third-party risk.
- **Attack Surface Management**: Real-time visibility into an organization’s digital footprint with threat detection and posture improvement.
- **User Risk Management**: Tools to secure the workforce, track human risk, and enable safe AI adoption.
- **Trust Management (Trust Exchange)**: AI‑driven questionnaire automation and a public Trust Page to accelerate deal closure.
- **Risk Automations**: API‑driven workflows connecting the risk stack for automated discovery, notification, and remediation.
- **Breach Risk**: Breach detection and risk scoring for proactive defense.

All products are part of the unified **Cyber Risk Posture Management (CRPM)** platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $122.4M across 8 rounds (per LinkedIn). Annual revenue is not publicly reported; the company states it is profitable.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly detailed in available sources; venture-backed.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 293 employees (+28.3% YoY, +82 people)
  - Active job postings: 59 (yearly trend +210.5%)
  - Trusted by 45,000+ companies worldwide, including NYSE, PagerDuty, IAG, and Hopin
  - Recognized as a **Great Place to Work** (97% of employees say it’s a great place to work) and named #69 on Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™ 2024 (Small and Medium)
  - Cyber research regularly cited by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and The Washington Post

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified CRPM platform** that spans vendor risk, attack surface, and human risk – a single view of cyber posture.
- **Continuous, AI-powered detection and prioritization** – moves beyond point-in-time assessments to real-time risk visibility.
- **Trusted scale** – 45,000+ customers, including well-known enterprises, and a reputation backed by independent media citations.
- **Profitable and venture-backed** – provides financial stability while enabling continued investment in product and talent.

## Strategic Focus
- Building an **AI Risk Operations Center** that connects all risk domains (vendors, attack surface, workforce) into one posture loop.
- Expanding **Human Risk Management** capabilities to help customers adopt AI safely.
- Scaling the global team (remote and office locations) to meet growing demand and take on high-impact projects.
- Accelerating **trust automation** (questionnaires, Trust Pages) to shorten sales cycles and improve customer transparency.

## Why Work Here
- **Great Place to Work Certified** – 97% employee satisfaction rating, with management praised for honesty and ethical practices.
- **Flexible work arrangements** – distributed global team with remote/hybrid options; offices in Mountain View, Sydney, and Hobart.
- **Meaningful benefits** – free lunches, gym reimbursement, health/dental/vision, 401(k) (US employees), and no “fluff” like ping-pong tables.
- **High-impact work** – “bandwidth-constrained” environment means new hires get significant responsibility and autonomy on projects that protect real people’s data.
- **Values-driven culture**: transparency, autonomy, curiosity, and the company mantra “Don’t #!&$ the customer.”
- **Growth trajectory** – profitable, venture-backed, and scaling fast with thousands of customers and a growing engineering and GTM team.

## Sources
1. [UpGuard Homepage](https://www.upguard.com/)
2. [UpGuard About Page](https://www.upguard.com/about)
3. [UpGuard Careers Page](https://www.upguard.com/careers)
4. [Great Place to Work – UpGuard Profile](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/en/certified-company/144000844)
5. [LinkedIn – UpGuard Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/upguard)

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