Staff Security Engineer – Product, Cloud

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🔥 32 minutes ago

🇦🇺 Australia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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UpGuard

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2012

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $105M Series C on 2026-02

Cybersecurity • SaaS • B2B

UpGuard is a company that provides a vendor risk management and security platform. The UpGuard Platform focuses on third-party/vendor risk management (TPRM), vendor discovery and onboarding, and AI security/governance (including an AI Security Center and tools to generate AI policy). It markets an AI-powered TPRM SaaS platform and highlights industry recognition (named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape 2026).

📋 Description

• Define the direction, standards, tooling, and practices for product security at UpGuard • Perform security reviews across product and production environments • Manage vulnerabilities and run detection and response operations in cloud-native infrastructure • Collaborate with product engineering and platform teams to secure products, CI/CD pipelines, and production systems • Refresh threat modelling and security review as standard parts of the software delivery process • Evaluate and build effective AI-driven application security tooling for code review, triage, and coverage • Harden GCP and Kubernetes baselines and implement secure-by-default infrastructure-as-code configurations • Lead threat modelling and security reviews across the product portfolio and cloud infrastructure • Build automation, policy-as-code, and AI-driven security tooling to embed security across the SDLC • Design and implement secure-by-default cloud and Kubernetes configurations • Own vulnerability management end-to-end, including risk-based triage, prioritization, remediation, and preventative software-supply-chain controls • Build scalable detection and response systems and run incidents end to end • Build partnerships with product engineering and platform teams to deliver secure-by-design solutions • Define the security roadmap, drive best practices, and scale UpGuard’s security posture

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in security engineering and/or software engineering and/or security operations • Experience working in cloud environments • Cloud security experience; GCP preferred, with AWS or Azure also welcome • Experience with cloud-native Kubernetes services such as EKS, GKE, or AKS • Strong container security principles • Strong understanding of IAM and cloud identities • Experience leading technical security reviews of products and architectures • Experience running threat modelling exercises and translating findings into implementable security controls • Strong knowledge of common web application vulnerabilities, including OWASP Top 10 • Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform or OpenTofu • Experience as a first security hire or founding security-function member is advantageous • Familiarity with AI/LLM security risks, such as OWASP LLM Top 10, is advantageous • Strong backend engineering skills, particularly in Go, are advantageous • Experience supporting SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audits is advantageous • Public security research, CVEs, open-source security tooling, or conference talks are advantageous • Offensive security skills and hands-on exploitation experience are advantageous • Ability to pass a national police history check and reference checks • Australian work authorization without requiring company visa sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• WFH set-up allowance • Monthly Lifestyle subsidy for financial, physical, and mental well-being • $1500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance • Annual leave/PTO plus two additional UpGuardian leave days • 18 weeks paid Parental Leave • Personal Leave Allowance including sick and carer’s leave • Fully remote working environment with no mandatory office attendance • Top-spec laptop provided • Paid subscriptions for generative AI tools • Stock options

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