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.

Senior Software Engineer

Based in Pune, India

Position Summary

As a 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.

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 30 you will have met most of your fellow Engineering HackerOnies, you will have paired with other Software Engineers, you will have a strong feel for our codebases and Security Talent Management products and will be prepared to start hands-on coding.

• 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.

• 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  

• 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)

• Practical experience with React JS or similar libraries

• Documented 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

• Containers / Docker

• Security tooling like Nmap, Nuclei

Compensation Bands:
3,672,000 INR - 4,590,000 INR per annum

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Job Benefits:

• Health (medical, vision, dental), life, and disability insurance*

• Equity stock options

• Retirement plans

• Paid public holidays and unlimited PTO

• Paid maternity and parental leave

• Leaves of absence (including caregiver leave and leave under CO's Healthy Families and Workplaces Act)

• Employee Assistance Program

• Flexible Work Stipend

*Eligibility may differ by country

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We're committed to building a global team! For certain roles outside the United States, U.K., and the Netherlands, we partner with Remote.com as our Employer of Record (EOR).

Employment at HackerOne is contingent on a background check.

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For US based roles only: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, all qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for the position.

HackerOne Values

HackerOne commits to maintaining a strong, inclusive culture built for our employees and our community of hackers. We are driven by our five core values. We recognize that our mission is bigger than us, and therefore act with integrity at all times. As a team, we believe that transparency builds trust so we default to disclosure in our communications. Each individual executes with excellence, creating an environment of greater alignment and greater autonomy. We win as a team and respect all people to empower everyone to learn from each other, innovate, and grow.