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

Are you ready to join the team working on the HackerOne Pentest product, that allows companies to leverage the vast pentesting experience of our hacker 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.

As Staff Software Engineer, you will work with Product Managers, Designers and Principal Engineers to be the technical lead for a variety of challenging projects. 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 most vibrant communities of security researchers and hackers in the world, and use this experience to build delightful features and products for them, as well as the thousands of companies who trust HackerOne with their cybersecurity.

As Staff 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 you find in your squad’s codebase, and in shared codebases across the company.

What You Will Do

• By day 30, you will have acquainted yourself with fellow Engineering HackerOnies, collaborated with Software Engineers, started understanding the project domain, and actively engaged in coding.

• By day 90, you will have demonstrated business impact, showcased technical contributions in review/demo sessions, and gained trust and respect within your team and the broader Engineering 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  

• 8+ 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

• Must be based remotely in Canada or the US. HackerOne operates as a digital-first company, offering flexibility in time and location. All employees must be able to work and excel in a remote environment.

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:
Tier Guide

Tier A

$188K – $211K • Offers Equity

Tier B

$170K – $211K • Offers Equity

Tier C

$160K – $199K • Offers Equity

Canada

CA$160K – CA$200K • Offers Equity

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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.