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# Staff Software Engineer

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## About this role.

AI SummaryUpGuard is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to provide cross-team technical direction while remaining hands-on in a product engineering squad. The role focuses on architecture, data, and scaling challenges for a cyber-risk platform targeting 100 billion risk signals per day. The core stack includes React, TypeScript, Go, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud Platform, with LLM-backed product capabilities and AI coding tools embedded in the engineering workflow. The successful candidate will influence product and engineering roadmaps, mentor senior engineers, and lead high-impact technical decisions across multiple teams.

## Role DNA

A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description.

### Job Complexity

5/5EasyHard

### Pace & Pressure

5/5RelaxedFast-paced

### Autonomy Level

5/5GuidedFull ownership

### Communication Load

5/5IndependentCollaborative

AI insightThis is a staff-level role requiring proven ownership of business-critical scaling and architecture problems across several teams. It combines deep hands-on engineering with organizational influence, technical strategy, and mentorship in a fast-growing, high-throughput security platform.

## Salary analysis

Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles.

Estimated job medianHighly competitive$210,000US market range$170k–$250k0$275k

AI insightNo actual salary was disclosed, so these are estimated annual USD base-salary market figures for a US Staff Software Engineer with large-scale distributed-systems and cloud-platform responsibilities. Actual compensation may vary substantially by hiring location, equity, bonus structure, and cybersecurity or AI specialization.

## Core skills

Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity.

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Sample interview questionsDescribe a cross-team architecture problem you owned from discovery through production. How did you build alignment?I would explain the business constraint first, then outline the technical options, trade-offs, and decision criteria. I would describe involving affected teams early through design reviews and prototypes, documenting the decision, and measuring outcomes after rollout to ensure the architecture solved the intended problem.

How would you approach scaling a platform that processes tens of billions of security signals per day?

I would begin by identifying throughput, latency, storage, and cost bottlenecks using production telemetry. I would design for partitioning, asynchronous processing, idempotency, backpressure, resilient failure handling, and data-lifecycle policies, then validate improvements through staged load testing and operational metrics.

What is your approach to using AI coding tools while maintaining engineering quality and security?

I use AI tools to accelerate exploration, implementation, and test generation, but retain full ownership of design and code review. I validate generated code through threat modeling, automated tests, dependency review, observability checks, and clear engineering standards rather than treating tool output as authoritative.

How do you balance technical debt reduction with near-term product delivery?

I connect technical debt to concrete customer, reliability, security, delivery-speed, or cost outcomes. I prioritize the highest-leverage work alongside product commitments, use incremental improvements where possible, and make trade-offs visible so product and engineering leadership can decide together.

How do you influence technical direction when you do not directly manage the engineers involved?

I earn trust by understanding team context, bringing evidence and viable options, and inviting teams into the decision process. I communicate the rationale clearly, support implementation with hands-on contribution where useful, and focus on shared customer and business outcomes rather than relying on title or authority.

### Who are we?

At UpGuard, we are replacing manual security bottlenecks with AI-driven precision. Fresh off a US$75M Series C, we are scaling our infrastructure to process 100 billion risk signals daily. This isn’t just growth; it’s a total reimagining of how the world manages cyber risk.

We build the Cyber Risk Posture Management (CRPM) platform that security teams actually love. By integrating security ratings, threat intel, and agentic AI, we empower organisations to stay ahead of an ever evolving attack surface.

We aren’t just building another tool; we’re defining a category. We provide the autonomy to ship world-class technology and the resources to do it at a global scale.

About the role

We’re hiring a Staff Software Engineer to set technical direction across Product Engineering. The architecture, data and scaling problems that matter most don’t sit neatly inside one squad, and that’s where you come in. You’ll stay hands-on in the code while working with engineering leadership on where the platform goes next, and you’ll raise the bar for how we build across the whole org.

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.

We’re also hiring [Software Engineers](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/upguard/78833788-91da-47b4-a313-07ad5c68428c) and [Senior Software Engineers](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/upguard/93741912-bde8-442f-aaf6-53e793e707b9). Not sure which level fits? Apply to the closest one and we’ll work it out together.

What you’ll do

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Stay hands-on: ship features in a squad, so your technical direction is grounded in the code and the customer

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Set cross-team technical direction and own the architecture decisions that span squads

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Lead our hardest scaling and data problems as we grow toward 100 billion risk signals a day

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Raise the engineering bar org-wide through standards, review, and mentoring senior engineers

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Shape the roadmap with engineering and product leadership: what to build, not only how

What we’re looking for

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Typically 8+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech-centric, product-driven companies

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Strong TypeScript and React

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A backend language you’re productive in (we use Go)

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Solid relational database skills (we use Postgres)

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AI coding tools as your default workflow, and the judgment to review and own what they produce

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Pragmatic trade-offs: you weigh technical quality against what the business needs now

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Low ego, high care: you’re in it for the product and the customer, not just the code

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A track record of setting technical direction across multiple teams, and bringing people with you rather than just writing the doc

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Evidence of owning a hard scaling or architecture problem end to end, where the outcome mattered to the business

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Comfort influencing without authority, working with product and leadership on what to
build, not only how

What will give you an edge?

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Cybersecurity experience

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Running services on Kubernetes, ideally on GCP

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Data engineering, large-scale scanning or crawling, or other high-throughput systems

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Evolving both architecture and team culture as a company scales, from a growing monolith toward services that teams build, run and own

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Building complex applications or systems from the ground up with a cross-functional team

### What’s in it for you?

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Monthly Lifestyle subsidy: Use this for financial, physical, and mental well-being

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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

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$1500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance: To support your career development, all team members will be able to expense development opportunities against this allowance

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Annual leave: PTO plus two additional UpGuardian leave days to give you time to recharge your batteries.

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18 weeks paid Parental Leave: Irrespective of parenting role

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Personal Leave Allowance: This includes sick & carer’s leave

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Fully remote working environment: While we have physical offices in Sydney & Hobart, we do not mandate compulsory attendance

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Top-spec hardware: All team members will be provided with top-spec laptops for their role

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Generative AI subsidy: UpGuard provides paid subscriptions for all team members to access generative AI tools to support their work

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Stock Options: Share in UpGuard’s growth and long-term success.

UpGuard is a Certified Great Place to Work® in the US, Australia, UK and India, establishing its position as a leading global technology employer. 99% of team members agree that UpGuard is a great place to work! Apply now to find out why!

As an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Please Note: Not all roles can be performed from the United States. Please check your specific job listing to confirm its advertised location. If the role you are applying for is listed as based in the US, we are currently only able to support hiring in the following locations: CA, CO, FL, IL, MA, MD, MO, OR, PA, TX, WA, and DC.

Before starting work with us, you will need to undertake a national police history check and reference checks.

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