[Hiring] Software Engineer @UpGuard Inc.

Role Description

We're hiring a Software Engineer to join our Product Engineering team. You'll work across the whole stack:

• Customer-facing features in React and TypeScript
• Go services that process security data at internet scale
• The plumbing that keeps it all secure and reliable

You'll ship real work in your first weeks with a senior engineer as your buddy, and your scope will grow as you're ready for it. You don't need to know cybersecurity yet, but you do need to be curious about it.

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.

Qualifications

• Typically 2+ years of relevant engineering experience
• 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

Requirements

• Cybersecurity experience
• Running services on Kubernetes, ideally on GCP

Benefits

• Fully remote and flexible: work from anywhere in Australia
• Real face time: two off-sites a year, one with your squad and one with the wider Product team or the whole company
• Stock options: every engineer gets equity, so you share in UpGuard's growth
• Annual leave: PTO plus two additional UpGuardian leave days
• 18 weeks paid Parental Leave: irrespective of parenting role (all regions)
• Personal Leave allowance: this includes sick and carer’s leave
• $[amount] monthly lifestyle subsidy for your financial, physical and mental wellbeing
• US$1,500 annual learning and development allowance
• WFH set-up allowance to get your home office right in your first three months