HackerOne is a global leader in offensive security solutions. Our HackerOne Platform combines AI with the ingenuity of the largest community of security researchers to find and fix security, privacy, and AI vulnerabilities across the software development lifecycle. The platform offers bug bounty, vulnerability disclosure, pentesting, AI red teaming, and code security. We are trusted by industry leaders like Amazon, Anthropic, Crypto.com, General Motors, GitHub, Goldman Sachs, Uber, 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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Based in Pune, India

Position Summary 

As the Software Engineer IV, you will work with the team's 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

• 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 CO's Healthy Families and Workplaces Act)

• Employee Assistance Program

• Flexible Work Stipend

*Eligibility may differ by country

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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