Senior Software Engineer

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.

Based in Pune, India

Position Summary

As the Senior Software Engineer, you will work with the teams seniors, Product Managers, and Designers. You ll also collaborate closely with our Pune in-office Customer Operations team and teams in the Netherlands and North America to solve real-world problems for our global customers.

As the most senior engineer in the team, you will be responsible for leading the team day to day. Together with the Senior Engineering Manager, you will build excellent capabilities to serve your customers.

You ll combine your technological expertise, domain knowledge, and an unquestionable dedication to business objectives as you intersect with the engineering organization. You identify and make systematic improvements to technical weaknesses you ll find in your squad s codebases, and in shared codebases across the company.

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

You are :

• At first, a tech-savvy person who likes to work with people and teams

• Willing to learn from Senior and Staff Software Engineers

• Owner of your progress as an individual.

Minimum qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in full-stack software engineering, especially within a SAAS environment.

• Experience developing applications with Ruby on Rails or Python.

• Preferable experience or interest in generative AI, ElasticSearch / OpenSearch, GraphQL

• Proven positive impact in your past professional experience

• The position is based in Pune and will be office-based. We are seeking candidates located in Pune, and the surrounding metropolitan areas.

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 COs Healthy Families and Workplaces Act)

• Employee Assistance Program

• Flexible Work Stipend

*Eligibility may differ by country

We are a Circle Back Initiative Employer and commit to responding to every applicant.

Were 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.

HackerOne is an Equal Opportunity Employer in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, pregnancy, disability or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by international, federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all HackerOne employment practices, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. HackerOne makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

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.