Senior Software Engineer, Bug Bounty

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.

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Senior Software Engineer 

Position Summary 

Are you ready to join HackerOne’s Bug Bounty Product Line? As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work with Product Managers and Designers to be the technical lead for a variety of challenging projects and build delightful features and products for our community and the thousands of companies that trust HackerOne with their cybersecurity posture.

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 world's most vibrant communities of security researchers and hackers and use this experience to build delightful features and products for them and the thousands of companies who trust HackerOne with their cybersecurity posture.

As a Senior Software 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 they find in their squad’s codebases, as well as 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 Washington DC, Austin Tx, San Francisco, or Seattle WA, 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 30 days will focus on getting to know HackerOne. You will join your new squad and begin onboarding - learn our technology stack, and meet our Hackeronies.

• By day 60 you’ll be involved in building a meaningful part of one of the projects and you will have become more connected with our community and various stakeholders

• 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

• 5+ years of development experience within a SAAS environment

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

• Practical SQL experience (5+ year, PostgreSQL preferred)

• Practical experience with React JS or similar libraries

• Experience leading technical projects through all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle

Preferred Qualifications

• Ruby on Rails (2+ years of experience)

• React JS (2+ years of experience)

• GraphQL

• Amazon Web Services

• Ability to coordinate efforts around new initiatives