Platform Engineer, UpGuard

UpGuard

Location:
Australia, Sydney ▼
Melbourne
Hobart
Brisbane

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

As a Platform Engineer, you'll play a critical role in enabling our product engineering teams to move faster and more safely. You'll own the platforms, tools and infrastructure that power our development workflows, improving reliability, streamlining operations and enhancing the overall developer experience. This role sits at the heart of our engineering organisation, helping to scale our systems and practices as we grow.

Job Responsibility:

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:

5+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech-centric and product-driven companies
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (preferably Terraform/OpenTofu) on a major cloud platform (ideally Google Cloud)
A strong software engineering foundation and a developer-first mindset
Proven ability to influence engineering culture and drive best practices across cross-functional teams
Hands-on experience with containerization, Kubernetes and modern CI/CD pipelines
A practical approach to cloud cost optimisation, with experience in identifying and implementing efficiency improvements
Strong collaboration and communication skills, especially when working across engineering, security, and product teams
Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action in fast-moving or formative environments

Nice to have:

Experience scaling infrastructure to support multi-region architectures and growing engineering teams
Experience with relational database design, performance tuning and operations at scale, ideally with PostgreSQL
A track record of improving developer experience through better tooling, streamlined workflows, and a documentation-first culture
Experience designing robust local development environments that mirror production
Strong backend engineering skills (we use Go)
Experience building internal platforms as products - with a focus on roadmap definition, adoption and developer enablement
Practical experience in product security, including embedding security best practices early in the SDLC and shifting security left

What we offer:

Monthly Lifestyle subsidy: use this for financial, physical and mental wellbeing
WFH set-up allowance: to ensure you have the right environment to work in
$1500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance: to support your career development
Generous Annual Leave/PTO allowances: 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: whilst 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

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
October 01, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Remote work

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