Senior 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.

Position Summary

HackerOne’s Pentest as a Service team is hiring for a Senior Software engineer, to help us build out our PTaaS product. HackerOne PTaaS allows companies to leverage the vast pentesting experience of our researcher 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.

We are a team of highly collaborative product engineers that prioritize delivering valuable software for our customers, internal users and researcher community. You would be joining a team that codes as a group on a regular basis, values code quality and product quality equally, and is constantly learning how to improve their craft. You will bring experience as a product engineer, an eagerness to build a new product and line of business, and excellent technical skills.

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; and 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

During your first +0 days, you will meet your fellow Software Engineers, learn our codebases and products and start hands-on coding. You will pair with more experienced team members, and join our mob programming sessions, to work together on some of the tasks and start to deliver independently.
Long term, you will:
Have the opportunity to work as a project lead together with stakeholders, designers and product leaders
Build, ship and maintain highly-available, performant and durable features for our PTaaS product
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