Sr Software Engineer IV (Automated Scanning)

HackerOne's mission is to empower the world to build a safer internet. HackerOne is the global leader in human-powered security. We leverage human ingenuity to pinpoint the most critical security flaws across your attack surface to outmatch cybercriminals. HackerOne’s Attack Resistance Platform combines creative human intelligence with the latest artificial intelligence to help organizations reduce risk and transform their businesses with confidence.

As a Senior Software Engineer IV at HackerOne, you will participate in a new, ambitious project and drive architectural discussions and decisions. You will be part of the Assessment Squad, a team responsible for building and maintaining products like Pentest as A Service, Code Review and many more. You will be part of the Automated Scanning initiative, where we combine vulnerability data and AI to offer highly automated detection.

You will interact with one of the most vibrant communities of security researchers and hackers in the world, deliver amazing product offerings for thousands of companies who trust HackerOne with their cybersecurity and work on platform features for our internal stakeholders.

• Your first month will be spent getting to know our company and your fellow HackerOnies through our well-organized and fun onboarding process called H.A.T.C.H. You will be setting up your development environment, getting a feel for our engineering processes, and embarking on a journey to fully understand the domain you will be working with.

• By day 90 you’ll have impressed your colleagues with your technical contributions, and you’ll have earned trust and credibility within your squad and the whole Engineering team, presenting your progress during our review/demo sessions.

• Your experience from here is yours to own. You could lead an important new project and work hand-in-hand with our principal engineer and designer. You could innovate during a Hack Week, by building something amazing that solves a problem for another team.

• Long term, you will: 

  • Work as a project lead together with stakeholders, designers and product leaders

  • Build, ship and maintain highly-available, performant and durable features, focused on (but not limited to) hacker-facing areas of our platform

  • Work with your team to deliver key results for impactful objectives

  • Be a part of cross-squad initiatives

  • Mentor and be mentored by other engineers 

• 5 years of general Software Engineering experience

• Experience with dynamically typed, OOP languages such as JavaScript, Objective-C, PHP, Python or Ruby, Bash

• Practical SQL experience (3+ year, PostgreSQL preferred) …