Senior/Staff Platform Engineer

🕒 June 17

🏄 California, Colorado, +11 more states – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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UpGuard

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2012

💼 Consulting

🛡️ Insurance

🏥 Healthcare

Consulting • Insurance • Healthcare

UpGuard is a comprehensive third-party risk and attack surface management platform. The company provides solutions for vendor risk management, including features like automated risk assessments, security ratings, and data leak detection. UpGuard's platform integrates AI to enhance security questionnaires and provides real-time alerts, ensuring continuous monitoring and complete visibility of security postures. Its services are utilized by industries such as financial services, technology, and healthcare to secure customer data and streamline trust management process with advanced cybersecurity tools.

📋 Description

• Champion a "platform as a product" mindset, regularly gathering feedback from engineering teams and iterating to improve the developer experience • Design, build and maintain scalable, reliable infrastructure on Google Cloud to support our growing product needs • Collaborate closely with developers to streamline local and CI/CD workflows, and champion platform best practices • Evolve our observability stack - ensuring teams have the monitoring, logging and alerting they need to move quickly and confidently • Implement and maintain secure-by-default patterns for networking, secrets management, IAM, and workload isolation • Accelerate and complete the adoption of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and GitOps to achieve consistent and auditable infrastructure changes

🎯 Requirements

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (preferably Terraform/OpenTofu) on a major cloud platform (ideally Google Cloud) • 5+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech-centric and ideally product-driven companies • A strong software engineering foundation and a developer-first mindset • Hands-on experience with containerization, Kubernetes and modern CI/CD pipelines • A track record of improving developer experience through better tooling, streamlined workflows, and a documentation-first culture • Experience with relational database design, performance tuning and operations at scale, ideally with PostgreSQL

🏖️ Benefits

• 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