Staff Software Engineer, PTaaS

HackerOne is the global leader in human-powered security, harnessing the creativity of the world’s largest community of security researchers with cutting-edge AI to protect your digital assets. The HackerOne Platform combines the expertise of our elite community and the most up-to-date vulnerability database to pinpoint critical security flaws across your attack surface. Our integrated solutions, including bug bounty, pentesting, code security audits, spot checks, and AI red teaming, ensure continuous vulnerability discovery and management throughout the software development lifecycle. Trusted by industry leaders such as Coinbase, General Motors, GitHub, Goldman Sachs, Hyatt, PayPal, and the U.S. Department of Defense, HackerOne was named a Best Workplace for Innovators by Fast Company in 2023 and a Most Loved Workplace for Young Professionals in 2024.

Staff Software Engineer, PTaaS

Remote Location: Seattle, WA; Austin, TX; or Washington, DC

Position Summary

Are you ready to join the team working on the HackerOne Pentest product, that allows companies to leverage the vast pentesting experience of our hacker community? HackerOne was recently named as a leader in GigaOm’s ‘Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) Radar’ report. To bolster this position, there will be plenty of challenging projects for the engineering squads working in this product area.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will work with Product Managers, Designers and Principal Engineers to be the technical lead for a variety of challenging projects. When you are not leading a project, you are a collaborative and effective software engineer and team member. You will interact with one of the most vibrant communities of security researchers and hackers in the world, and use this experience to build delightful features and products for them, as well as the thousands of companies who trust HackerOne with their cybersecurity.

As a Staff Engineer, you combine broad technological expertise, deep domain knowledge, and an unquestionable dedication to business objectives as you intersect with the engineering organization. You seek leadership responsibilities, identify and spearhead new initiatives, and make systematic improvements to technical weaknesses you find in your squad’s codebase, and in shared codebases across the company.

At HackerOne, we embrace a Flexible Work approach, enabling our team members to work remotely while maintaining productivity and collaboration. We are seeking candidates located in Seattle, WA; Austin, TX; or Washington, DC, and the surrounding metropolitan areas, to facilitate occasional in-person interactions as needed. While the position is primarily remote, there will be periodic in-person requirements to support team collaboration and foster stronger connections. This approach ensures flexibility while providing opportunities to build meaningful in-person relationships that strengthen our team and company culture.

What You Will Do

• 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 

Minimum Qualifications  

• 8+ years of general Software Engineering experience

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

• 3+ years Practical SQL ex