Backed by Kleiner Perkins, GV and Techstars.
About the role
Synack’s Penetration Testing as a Service platform manages customers’ attack surfaces by discovering new assets, pentesting for critical vulnerabilities and gaining visibility into the root causes of security risks. We are committed to making the world more secure by harnessing a talented, vetted community of security researchers to deliver continuous penetration testing and vulnerability management, with actionable results.
What they're looking for
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering
- Proven ability to build and scale production systems
- Strong Python, polyglot codebase,
- Fluent or willing to learn Go
- Experience building LLMs an agentic frameworks leveraging tools like RAG, MCP- from dev environment to production
- Demonstrate ability to create reliable agents (prompting, evaluation, guardrails, understanding of token and cost optimization
More about this role
Synack’s Penetration Testing as a Service platform manages customers’ attack surfaces by discovering new assets, pentesting for critical vulnerabilities and gaining visibility into the root causes of security risks. We are committed to making the world more secure by harnessing a talented, vetted community of security researchers to deliver continuous penetration testing and vulnerability management, with actionable results. Synack's PTaaS platform has uncovered more than 71,000 exploitable vulnerabilities to date, protecting a growing list of Global 2000 customers and U.S. agencies in a FedRAMP Moderate Authorized environment. For more information, please visit www.synack.com .
You'll design and ship AI agents that plan, reason, drive security tooling and surface exploitable vulnerabilities, running autonomously inside sandboxed environments. It's a hands-on senior role spanning applied AI and cybersecurity. You'll own systems end to end and raise the technical bar for the team around you.
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Please note: This is a remote position based in the U.S. We can only hire U.S. citizens for this position due to federal government contract requirements.
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