Senior/Staff Platform Engineer

UpGuard

Platform Engineer shaping platform engineering function at UpGuard, building reliable infrastructure and enhancing developer experience through collaboration and innovation.

Posted 6/17/2026full-timeRemote • California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudKubernetesPostgresTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

Infrastructure as CodeTerraformGoogle CloudKubernetesCI/CDcontainerizationrelational database designPostgreSQLperformance tuningGitOps

Soft Skills

developer-first mindsetcollaborationfeedback gatheringstreamlined workflowsdocumentation-first culture