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.

HackerOne Values

HackerOne is dedicated to fostering a strong and inclusive culture. HackerOne is Customer Obsessed and prioritizes customer outcomes in our decisions and actions. We Default to Disclosure by operating with transparency and integrity, ensuring trust and accountability. Employees, researchers, customers, and partners Win Together by fostering empowerment, inclusion, respect, and accountability.

Position Summary

HackerOne is seeking a dynamic individual with a passion for Information Security to join our Triage Events team. As a Security Analyst for Live Hacking Events, you will gain hands-on technical experience and exposure to some of the world’s best hackers while delivering high-impact vulnerabilities to the top bug bounty programs in the industry.  

This role requires excellent communication skills, a sense of urgency,  intellectual curiosity and drive to acquire the technical skills you’ll need to ensure every valid bug report is reproducible and provides value to HackerOne customers.

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; San Francisco Bay Area; Austin, TX; Washington, D.C. or London, UK, 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

• Evaluate vulnerability reports submitted by hackers to determine the validity, risk and severity to HackerOne customers

• Collaborate with hackers to understand complex chained vulnerabilities that will grow your skills daily

• Ensure clear and efficient communication between hackers, customers and other team mates

• Proactively identify and solve issues, as well as accept and quickly respond to delegated work; as we are distributed, being able to win as a team to solve problems is critical to our success

• Independently reproduce reported vulnerabilities in a test environment and compose a technical summary for valid reports that includes clear and concise details regarding the impact, steps to reproduce and remediation advice

• Thrive in a collaborative collective environment where hackers, customers and security analysts have the best experience.

• Self-motivated interest in emerging technologies and their impact on securing the digital world

Minimum Qualifications  

• 3+ years of experience doing security testing or ethical hacking on web and mobile applications

• Proven experience with vulnerability disclosure and bug bounty (experience managing a bug bounty program is a plus but not required)

• Strong technical knowledge of OWASP top 10

• Comfortable using security testing tools including Burpsuite 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Experience using frameworks such as CVSS

• Ability and willingness to travel globally at least 3-5 times a year

• Self-motivated and able to manage your time and energy output while maintaining a consistent and sustainable operational rhythm

• English fluency

Compensation Bands:

San Francisco Bay Area

$128K – $144K • Offers Equity

Seattle, WA; Austin, TX; or Washington, D.C. Area

$115K – $130K • Offers Equity

London, UK Area

£64K – £80K • Offers Equit