Elite Web & API Security Hacker

Axos Bank

Target Range:

$115,000.00 /Yr. - $200,000.00 /Yr.

Actual starting pay will vary based on factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, experience, skills, specialty, and education.

Eligible for an Annual Discretionary Cash Bonus Target:

Eligible for an Annual Discretionary Restricted Stock Units Bonus Target:

These discretionary target bonuses may be awarded semi-annually based upon your achievement of performance goals and targets.

About This Job

Are you a relentless hacker who sees a login page as a challenge and an API endpoint as an invitation?

We’re not looking for someone who knows how to run SAST, DAST, or point-and-click scanners.

We’re hiring an elite technical offensive security expert — a hacker who lives in Burp Suite, thinks in curl, and sees an API schema as a playground. In this role, you’ll simulate real-world adversaries, uncover security flaws across our web applications and APIs, and work closely with engineering to harden the systems that power our platform.

If your favorite tools have names like ffuf, jwt_tool, custom Python scripts, and your brain, we’re ready to talk.

Whether you specialize in bypassing authentication, exploiting misconfigured CORS policies, or finding logic flaws that scanners can’t, we want your mindset, your creativity, and your technical firepower.

This position is on-site at any of our office locations (San Diego CA, Irvine CA, Los Angeles CA, Las Vegas NV, Centennial CO, Omaha NE, Overland Park KS, Edison NJ) or 100% Remote, depending upon your location.

Responsibilities:

• Break real applications: Perform targeted, manual security testing of production-grade web apps and APIs — REST, GraphQL, gRPC, internal and public-facing
• Simulate adversaries: Go beyond OWASP Top 10 — find logic flaws, auth bypasses, data leakage, and chained exploits
• Red team mindset: Think like an attacker. Design and execute your own kill chains. Document it so even a backend dev gets it
• Code-aware exploitation: You don't need the source, but if you had it, you’d read it like a map to the treasure
• Outthink security controls: WAF? Rate limits? Auth tokens? Good. We want someone who thrives when blocked
• Go deep on abuse cases: Find the obscure. The unintended. The "shouldn’t happen but does" kind of bugs

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related field; Master’s preferred
• 5+ years in information security, including 2+ years in application security roles.
• Extensive experience designing and securing APIs in high-scale, cloud-native environments.
• Financial services experience is strongly preferred
• Deep knowledge of OWASP Top 10 (including API Security Top 10), secure coding, and threat modeling
• Proficiency in securing RESTful and GraphQL APIs; experience with tools like Postman, Burp Suite, 42Crunch, or API Sentinel
• Familiar with JWT, OAuth2, OIDC, rate limiting, API Gateway policies (e.g., Kong, Apigee, AWS API Gateway)
• Certifications preferred: CSSLP, OSWE, CISSP, or API-specific credentials like API Security Architect (APIsec University)
• Web protocols cold: HTTP, cookies, sessions, auth flows, JWTs, CORS
• AuthN/AuthZ exploits: OAuth abuse, IDOR, BOLA, SSO bypass
• API attack patterns: Broken schema enforcement, insecure object references, parameter pollution, replay attacks
• Tools you own (or write): Burp Suite Pro, Postman, ffuf, sqlmap, jwt_tool, mitmproxy, Python, bash — or your own
• Manual testing workflow: You don’t wait for a scanner to find something. You hunt, fuzz, and test edge cases manually
• Threat modeling mindset: You think in abuse scenarios, not just CVEs

Axos Employee Benefits May Include:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance

• Paid Sick Leave, 3 weeks’ Vacation, and Holidays (about 11 a year)

• HSA or FSA account and other voluntary benefits

• 401(k) Retirement Saving Plan with Employer Match Program and 529 Savings Plan

• Employee Mortgage Loan Program and free access to an Axos Bank Account with Self-Directed Trading

About Axos

Born digital-first, Axos delivers financial tools and services that allow individuals, small businesses, and companies to access and manage their money how, when, and where they want. We’re a diverse team of dynam