Job Description

Penetration Tester

Location: Austin, TX Duration: Long term contract

Skills: Security Testing, Web Application security, Penetration testing (At least one year experience)

What We're Looking For

• Analytical thinking, and motivated to learn new things.
• Experience manually testing complex web applications.
• Experience with a scripting language (e.g. perl, python, PHP, ruby) and a programming language (e.g. JAVA, JavaScript, Go).
• Proficiency in either Mac OS X and/or other flavors of UNIX.
• Background in web application development and/or code auditing preferred.
• Strong verbal & written communication skills.
• Passion for discovering and researching new vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques.
• Experience in performing Threat Models and/or security architecture reviews.
• Experience in securing Cloud environments (such as AWS).
• Preferred: Experience participating in CTFs, or security research/bug bounties.

Day to Day Responsibilities

• This security engineer role will involve working closing with engineering teams to implement a secure development lifecycle. Day to day responsibilities include:
• Conduct security architecture reviews of the full stack including applications built on cloud and emerging technologies.
• Conduct manual application security testing and source code auditing for a variety of technologies.
• Work closely with engineering teams to provide security guidance to engineers.
• Create proof of concepts to demonstrate impact to engineering teams.
• Create automations and/or security tooling to scale security testing.

Education

• Preferred: BS in Computer Science or Computer Security
• Preferred: OSCP certification

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