Who are we?

UpGuard’s mission is to protect the world’s data. We obsessively seek out elegant, robust ways to enable our customers to find, acknowledge, and remediate cyber risk. With UpGuard, organizations leverage our security expertise and software to automate what was once laborious, spreadsheet-driven processes–whether it's monitoring the attack surface of hundreds of vendors or assessing the security of their own infrastructure. UpGuard is used by some of the world’s largest, fastest-growing, and most innovative companies.

Our Product team at UpGuard comprises of our Product Management, Product Support, Engineering, Design, Data Leaks Detection, and Third Party Risk Management Services. Our Product team’s vision is to become the leader in the Cyber VRM category by providing a best-in-class SaaS platform for organizations to manage their third-party risk and external attack surface. Our purpose as a Product team is simply to build a product that enables this. We aim to build a product that users love and come to rely on, and one that regularly and consistently improves.

Where does this role fit in?

As a Threat Analyst at UpGuard, you will be an integral member of our Threat Scanning Team, which specializes in identifying, analyzing, and mitigating emerging threats. You’ll work with a collaborative group of analysts and developers, leveraging homegrown OSINT tools as well as designing and implementing new ones. Your efforts will directly enhance UpGuard’s threat intelligence capabilities, contributing to the development of our cutting-edge tools and methodologies.

What will you do?

Analyze Data Leaks: Process and assess incoming data feeds to identify whether customers have been impacted by data leaks.
Contribute to Threat Intelligence Feeds: Enhance UpGuard’s proprietary threat intelligence feeds by researching and integrating new findings.
Develop Vulnerability Detections: Build new product and vulnerability detections by reverse-engineering applications, analyzing vulnerability disclosures, and creating robust detection methodologies.
Conduct Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Security Research: Focus heavily on identifying, analyzing, and interpreting open-source intelligence across the open, deep, and dark web to identify risks and vulnerabilities.

What will you bring?

Expertise in Open Source Intelligence: Strong understanding of OSINT methodologies with a focus on the open, deep, and dark web.
Understanding of Software Development: Solid grasp of software development processes to deconstruct and interpret vulnerability disclosures effectively.
Cross-Team Collaboration: Excellent communication skills to work with the Customer Success & Support teams, explaining capabilities and resolving customer issues.
Independence and Initiative: A self-starter attitude with the ability to take ownership of tasks and drive them to completion independently or collaboratively.
Technical Skills in Scripting: Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, with the ability to learn and adapt to new programming languages as needed.

What will give you an edge?

Proven Expertise: Demonstrated experience through OSINT-focused tools or projects you’ve built or contributed to.
Background in Security Research or Development: Prior experience in security research, penetration testing, or software development.
Ability to Communicate Across Audiences: The capability to bridge technical insights with non-technical stakeholders to ensure alignment and understanding.

What’s in it for you?

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, we will help you get set up within your first 3 months at UpGuard.
Generous Compensation: The base salary for this role is $120,000. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
$1,500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance: to support your career development all team members will be able to expense development opportunities against this allowance.
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: 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 roles.
Personal device security & online privacy protection subsidy: UpGuard provides team members with a paid subscription to personal device security & online privacy protection platform.
Generative AI subsidy: UpGuard provides paid subscriptions for all team members to access generative AI tools to support their work.

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.

For applications to positions in the United States, please note, at this time we can only support hiring in the following US states: CA, MD, MA, IL, OR, WA, CO, TX, FL, PA, LA, MO, DC or NV.

Before starting work with us, you will need to undertake a national police history check and reference checks. Also please note that at this time, we cannot support candidates requiring visa sponsorship or relocation.