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# Lead Security Engineer (Penetration Testing) at HighLevel

- **Company:** HighLevel
- **Location:** India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/gohighlevel/7020625f-637e-44dc-ac76-3964ef2091ca

## Job description

## About Us

HighLevel is an AI powered, all-in-one white-label sales & marketing platform that empowers agencies, entrepreneurs, and businesses to elevate their digital presence and drive growth. We are proud to support a global and growing community of over 1 million businesses, comprised of agencies, consultants, and businesses of all sizes and industries. HighLevel empowers users  with all the tools needed to capture, nurture, and close new leads into repeat customers. As of mid 2025, HighLevel processes over 4 billion API hits and handles more than 2.5 billion message events every day. Our platform manages over 470 terabytes of data distributed across five databases, operates with a network of over 250 microservices, and supports over 1 million hostnames.

Our People With over 1,500 team members across 15+ countries, we operate in a global, remote-first environment. We are building more than software; we are building a global community rooted in creativity, collaboration, and impact. We take pride in cultivating a culture where innovation thrives, ideas are celebrated, and people come first, no matter where they call home.

Our Impact As of mid 2025, our platform powers over 1.5 billion messages, helps generate over 200 million leads, and facilitates over 20 million conversations for the more than 1 million businesses we serve each month. Behind those numbers are real people growing their companies, connecting with customers, and making their mark - and we get to help make that happen.

## About the Role

We are looking for a Lead Security Engineer– Application Security & AI Security with 8+ years of experience to help secure HighLevel’s products, platforms, and AI-powered capabilities. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on building and scaling Application Security practices while driving security initiatives for AI-enabled products.You will work closely with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and AI teams to embed security into every stage of the software development lifecycle. You’ll provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, influence secure architecture decisions, and help define the future of security across our engineering organization.

Learn more about us on our YouTube Channel or Blog Posts

What You’ll Be Doing:

- Lead Application Security initiatives across HighLevel’s products and engineering teams.
- Proliferate security standards recommended by central security team as best practices within Dev teams.
- Conduct architecture reviews, secure design assessments, and threat modeling for new features and platforms.
- Perform security assessments for Web, Mobile, and API-based applications.
- Define and drive secure SDLC practices across engineering teams.
- Partner with developers to identify, prioritize, and remediate security vulnerabilities.
- Lead security reviews for AI/LLM-powered applications, agents, and AI integrations.
- Develop security guardrails for AI systems, including protections against prompt injection, data leakage, insecure tool usage, model abuse, and emerging AI attack techniques.
- Improve security tooling and automate security testing within CI/CD pipelines.
- Champion secure coding practices through developer enablement, documentation, and training.
- Drive vulnerability management efforts and improve remediation workflows.
- Mentor engineers and foster a strong security-first engineering culture.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration by communicating complex security risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders, influencing product roadmaps, and ensuring alignment between security priorities and engineering objectives.
- Stay current with emerging threats, application security trends, and advancements in AI security.

What You’ll Bring:

- 8+ years of experience in Cybersecurity, with deep expertise in Application Security and leading engineering-focused security initiatives.
- Comprehensive technical knowledge in securing Web, Mobile (Android/iOS), and API (REST/GraphQL) environments, including OWASP standards and authentication protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, SAML).
- Proven experience performing security assessments including threat modeling, secure design/code reviews, penetration testing, and architecture reviews.
- Hands-on DevSecOps proficiency: automating security in CI/CD pipelines, container security (Kubernetes/Docker), and managing security tooling (SAST, DAST, SCA, Secret Scanning).
- Specialized expertise in AI/LLM security, including mitigation of prompt injection, data leakage, model misuse, and insecure agent/tool integration.
- Proficiency in programming/scripting (Python, Go, JavaScript, or Bash) and strong communication skills to influence technical stakeholders across product and engineering teams.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience securing workloads on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code security (Terraform).
- Familiarity with CSPM/CNAPP solutions.
- Experience leading or participating in Red Teaming, adversary simulation, or purple team exercises.
- Experience with DevSecOps and security automation.
- Security certifications such as CEH, OSCP, GWAPT, CISSP, GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer, or similar.
- Contributions to open-source security projects, bug bounty programs, or security research.

## Equal Employment Opportunity Information

The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. As an employer subject to affirmative action regulations, we invite you to voluntarily provide the following demographic information. This information is used solely for compliance with government record keeping, reporting, and other legal requirements. Providing this information is voluntary and refusal to do so will not affect your application status. This data will be kept separate from your application and will not be used in the hiring decision.

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## About HighLevel

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: HighLevel provides an all-in-one, AI-powered sales and marketing platform that agencies can white-label and resell to their clients.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series Unknown; $60M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Dallas, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Shaun Clark, Varun Vairavan, Robin Alex

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Marketing technology / Sales automation / Software Development
- **Target customers**: B2B – marketing agencies, entrepreneurs, and small-to-medium businesses (SMBs)
- **Mission / Purpose**: Help marketing agencies grow and scale by unifying the tools they need to capture leads, automate outreach, and manage customer relationships in a single, white-label platform.

## Products & Services
- **HighLevel Platform (SaaS)**: A unified operating system that includes CRM, landing pages, surveys, forms, calendars, inbound phone system, automated messaging (voicemail, SMS, email, Facebook Messenger), payment collection, appointment scheduling, and analytics. AI is embedded across the entire system to power lead generation, conversion, and retention.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $45M (as of most recent data); total funding of $60M.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: General Atlantic (lead investor in 2024 private equity round), Peakequity (lead investor in 2021 round).
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Powers 2.2 million businesses, facilitating 6.9 billion leads and $4.2 billion in sales (2025).
  - Employee headcount grew 53.7% year-over-year to ~1,497, with plans to surpass 2,000 by end of 2025.
  - 30% of workforce dedicated to R&D.
  - Expanded AI capabilities in 2024; manages 2.3 billion leads and 505 million opportunities.

## Competitive Advantages
- **White-labeling**: Agencies can fully rebrand the platform as their own, creating a stickier client relationship and recurring revenue.
- **AI-first approach**: AI embedded across the entire stack (lead scoring, automation, analytics) gives users a competitive edge without needing multiple tools.
- **Unified ecosystem**: Replaces the need for a patchwork of separate tools (CRM, email marketing, SMS, scheduling, payments), reducing complexity and cost for agencies.
- **Community-driven innovation**: Product roadmap heavily influenced by a large, active user community of 60,000+ customers.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI expansion**: Deepening AI capabilities to automate more of the marketing and sales workflow.
- **Scaling the platform**: Continuing to grow the user base (targeting 2,000+ employees) and expanding into new verticals.
- **Global reach**: Leveraging a remote-first, globally distributed team to serve customers in multiple countries and time zones.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Work from anywhere; team spans 21 countries with async and real-time communication.
- **Culture of collaboration**: Emphasis on ownership, speed, continuous improvement; active Slack community and in-person retreats.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive health & wellness, mental health support, flexible PTO, professional development stipends, mentorship, and leadership programs.
- **Engineering culture**: 30% of workforce in R&D; focus on building technology that serves millions; AI tools used in hiring process.
- **Growth opportunity**: Rapidly scaling company (53.7% YoY headcount growth) with clear plans to surpass 2,000 employees.

## Sources
1. [gohighlevel.com – Life at HighLevel](https://www.gohighlevel.com/careers-life-at-highlevel)
2. [gohighlevel.com – About Us](https://www.gohighlevel.com/about-us)
3. [LinkedIn – HighLevel Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/highlevel)
4. [LeadIQ – HighLevel Overview](https://leadiq.com/c/highlevel/5b214cbe360000fc0066929d)

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