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# Senior Security Engineer, Identity and Access Management at HackerOne

- **Company:** HackerOne
- **Location:** Seattle, WA
- **Compensation:** $180k–$220k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-26
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hackerone/3a370481-0350-4267-b58b-8874ccecdaa3

## Job description

HackerOne is a global leader in Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM). The HackerOne Platform unites agentic AI solutions with the ingenuity of the world’s largest community of security researchers to continuously discover, validate, prioritize, and remediate exposures across code, cloud, and AI systems. Through solutions like bug bounty, vulnerability disclosure, agentic pentesting, AI red teaming, and code security, HackerOne delivers measurable, continuous reduction of cyber risk for enterprises. Industry leaders, including Anthropic, [Crypto.com](http://Crypto.com), General Motors, Goldman Sachs, Lufthansa, Uber, UK Ministry of Defence, and the U.S. Department of Defense, trust HackerOne to safeguard their digital ecosystems. HackerOne was recognized in Gartner’s Emerging Tech Impact Radar: AI Cybersecurity Ecosystem report for its leadership in AI Security Testing and has been named a Most Loved Workplace for Young Professionals (2024).

HackerOne is at a pivotal inflection point in the security industry. Offensive security is no longer optional – it is the standard for forward-thinking companies that want to build trust and resilience in a world where AI-driven innovation and adversaries are moving faster than ever. With the industry shifting, HackerOne stands apart: we combine the ingenuity of the largest security research community with a best-in-class AI-powered platform, trusted by the world’s top organizations.

HackerOne Values HackerOne is dedicated to fostering a strong and inclusive culture. HackerOne is Customer Obsessed and prioritizes customer outcomes in our decisions and actions. We Default to Disclosure by operating with transparency and integrity, ensuring trust and accountability. Employees, researchers, customers, and partners Win Together by fostering empowerment, inclusion, respect, and accountability.

Senior Security Engineer, Identity and Access Management

Remote Location: Seattle, WA or Washington, DC

Position Summary At HackerOne, identity is at the heart of how we protect the data we are trusted with most, our customers' vulnerabilities. We are building our Identity and Access Management capability with an AI-first approach, focused on engineering and not administration alone. As a Senior Security Engineer, you will design and deliver the access models and the automation behind them, so that people and systems can access only the right data, at the right time, in the right way. This role operates across the full identity lifecycle, from onboarding and creation through change and removal, for people, service accounts, and AI agents alike. You will help scale what a small team can accomplish by embedding automation, intelligence, and AI into how access is granted, reviewed, and removed, working toward least privilege for humans and least agency for AI. At HackerOne, we embrace a Flexible Work approach that gives us the freedom to do our best work while also fostering the connections and community that make us stronger. Reflecting this philosophy, this is a remote role targeted for candidates within ~50 miles of Austin TX, Seattle WA, Washington DC, San Francisco CA, or Boston MA, or within commuting distance of our London or Netherlands locations. We believe this balance of proximity and flexibility gives Hackeronies the chance to occasionally come together, fostering collaboration, connection, and in-person moments that enrich our culture, while still preserving the benefits of remote work.

## What You Will Do

Success in the Senior Security Engineer, Identity and Access Management role will be accomplished by delivering on the responsibilities below in alignment with the Values and Principles that define how we work at HackerOne:

- Own the identity lifecycle end to end, from onboarding and creation through change to removal, for people, service accounts, and AI agents alike, building the automation that grants entitlements on evidence of legitimate need and removes them seamlessly and automatically
- Design and build the access models on top of data classification, so that what an identity can reach follows from what the data is rather than from who asked
- Make time-bound access the default for critical data, so that the secure path is the easy path
- Engineer identity as code, keeping provisioning logic, entitlement policy, and access review rules in version control and under test across systems such as Okta, Lumos, and AWS IAM, applying First Principles Problem Solving rather than configuring by hand in consoles
- Build AI and LLM-powered tooling that makes access review and entitlement anomaly detection continuous rather than periodic, embedding AI First practices so unusual patterns surface when they happen rather than at audit, and decide where AI is trusted to carry an access decision and where a person still signs it off
- Bring non-human identities under the same discipline as human ones. Service accounts, workload identities, integrations, and AI agents each get an owner, a purpose, and an expiry, treated as the default rather than a cleanup project
- Continuously measure access and report the opportunity to reduce unnecessary entitlement, using Data-Driven Decision Making to prioritize where reduction matters most
- Partner with Engineering, Enterprise IT, and Compliance to embed identity controls into the systems they own, and support detection and incident response as the identity responder, containing access, reconstructing what an identity reached, and contributing to blameless retrospectives, demonstrating Change Agility as threats and tooling evolve

## Minimum Qualifications

- 5+ years of experience in identity and access management, security engineering, or software engineering with substantial ownership of identity systems
- Hands-on experience operating an enterprise identity provider such as Okta, including SAML, OIDC, SCIM, and lifecycle automation
- Experience managing identity across an enterprise SaaS estate such as Google Workspace, Salesforce and Workday, including SCIM provisioning and group-driven entitlements
- Experience with cloud IAM, ideally AWS, including policy design and short-lived credentials
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar language, and hands-on use of AI and LLM tooling and agentic coding tools in production engineering work

## Preferred Qualifications

- Identity work in a regulated sector such as financial services, healthcare, or government, and producing access control evidence for audit against requirements such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, or ISO 27001
- Managing identity infrastructure as code, and access request or governance tooling, for example Terraform and Lumos
- Mobile device management (MDM) alongside identity, for example Kandji integrated with Okta: device trust policies, platform SSO, and endpoint enrollment
- Non-human, workload, and privileged access: secrets management, short-lived credentials, and service-to-service authentication
- Building AI or LLM-powered tooling for security or identity workflows
- Detection and incident response for identity-centered incidents such as credential compromise, session abuse, or entitlement misuse
- Industry certification in identity or security, such as IDPro CIDPRO, Okta certifications, AWS Certified Security – Specialty, or CISSP

Compensation Bands: [Tier Guide](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CpnuHvyv3ldvgWy7FIttnkH7b0txxuc3/view) Seattle or Washington DC $180K – $220K • Offers Equity Options

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

*Eligibility may differ by country We're committed to building a global team! For certain roles outside the United States, India, the U.K., and the Netherlands, we partner with [Remote.com](https://remote.com/preemployment-faq) as our Employer of Record (EOR).

Visa/work permit sponsorship is not available.

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.

## About HackerOne

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: HackerOne provides a unified platform that combines AI and human insight to help organizations identify, manage, and remediate security vulnerabilities through bug bounty, pentesting, and vulnerability disclosure programs.
- **Entity Type**: Private
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (with hubs in eight global locations)
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Michiel Prins, Jobert Abma, Alex Rice, Merlijn Boogaard

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Cybersecurity (Vulnerability Management, Bug Bounty, Penetration Testing)
- Target customers: B2B serving Global 2000 companies, technology firms, government agencies, and open-source projects across all industries
- Mission or purpose statement: To empower the world to build a safer internet by making world-class security accessible to everyone [hackerone.com](https://www.hackerone.com/company)

## Products & Services
- **HackerOne Platform**: A unified SaaS platform that integrates bug bounty programs, vulnerability disclosure programs (VDPs), and penetration testing services. It leverages a global community of ethical hackers alongside AI-driven vulnerability detection.
- **Bug Bounty Programs**: Organizations pay rewards ("bounties") to ethical hackers for discovering and reporting security vulnerabilities. HackerOne manages the triage, validation, and remediation workflow.
- **Pentest as a Service (PTaaS)**: On-demand, managed penetration testing delivered by HackerOne's internal security experts, providing continuous testing beyond traditional point-in-time assessments.
- **Vulnerability Disclosure Program (VDP)**: A managed service for setting up a secure channel for external researchers to report security issues, reducing risk from unknown vulnerabilities.
- **HackerOne AI**: Proprietary AI tools and models that analyze vulnerability reports, reduce false positives (25% of findings are actionable), and accelerate remediation workflows [hackerone.com](https://www.hackerone.com/company).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Approximately $2.9 billion (as of July 2025, based on secondary market reports; not officially confirmed)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding - Over $160 million raised from notable venture capital firms.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Valor Equity Partners, EQT Partners, Benchmark, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Dragoneer Investment Group, and others. Strategic partnerships include the "Internet Bug Bounty" (IBB) for core internet infrastructure [hackerone.com](https://www.hackerone.com/company).
- **Growth Signals**: Over 90% of customers trust HackerOne; 1,300+ companies use the platform; 600,000+ bugs have been discovered; the company reported a 210% increase in vulnerability reports in 2025, and has published millions in AI vulnerability reports [hackerone.com](https://www.hackerone.com/company).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Global Hacker Community**: The world's largest community of elite ethical hackers providing unmatched scale and diversity of testing perspectives.
- **Unified Platform + AI**: The only platform that unifies bug bounty, VDP, and PTaaS with proprietary AI, creating a "high signal, low noise" environment (25% of findings are actionable).
- **Deep Integration with Customers**: Offers $4M+ ROI per critical vulnerability before a breach occurs, making it a high-value, sticky platform for enterprise security teams.
- **Founding Member of IBB**: Unique credibility and access to securing core internet infrastructure and open source projects [hackerone.com](https://www.hackerone.com/company).

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-Powered Security**: Continuing to invest in AI that enhances vulnerability detection, triage, and remediation, while also using AI to generate new attack simulations.
- **Expanding Enterprise Adoption**: Growing its customer base among Global 2000 companies with PTaaS and managed services.
- **Community Growth and Engagement**: Deepening relationships with ethical hackers through events, training, and increased bounty opportunities.
- **Open Source & Infrastructure Security**: Maintaining its leadership role in securing critical internet infrastructure through the IBB and other community initiatives.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Culture**: Employees ("Hackeronies") are united by a mission to build a safer internet. The company explicitly seeks candidates who are passionate about this mission [hackerone.com](https://www.hackerone.com/careers).
- **Flexible Work Philosophy**: HackerOne embraces a "Flexible Work" model with hubs in eight global locations, emphasizing collaboration and community while providing flexibility to perform at one's best [hackerone.com](https://www.hackerone.com/careers).
- **Core Values**: The company operates on three core values: Lead with integrity, Default to disclosure (transparency builds trust), and Execute with excellence [hackerone.com](https://www.hackerone.com/careers).
- **Diversity, Equity & Inclusion**: HackerOne is committed to creating an inclusive culture where diverse teams increase creativity, belonging, and performance. They have Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to foster community.
- **Comprehensive Benefits**: Includes generous paid time off, parental leave (maternity, paternity, family caregiver), medical coverage, retirement plans, and compensation packages linked to long-term company success [hackerone.com](https://www.hackerone.com/careers).
- **Compensation Philosophy**: Pay is based on internal equity and local market data to remain competitive, with a system focused on job duties, experience, location, and tenure [hackerone.com](https://www.hackerone.com/careers).
- **Onboarding (HATCH) Program**: New hires join a cohort-based onboarding program that covers culture, product, and tools like "Working Genius" to help employees thrive [hackerone.com](https://www.hackerone.com/blog/recruitment-process-what-expect-when-you-apply-hackerone).

## Sources
1. [HackerOne About Us Page](https://www.hackerone.com/company)
2. [HackerOne Careers Page](https://www.hackerone.com/careers)
3. [HackerOne Recruitment Process Blog](https://www.hackerone.com/blog/recruitment-process-what-expect-when-you-apply-hackerone)
4. [HackerOne LinkedIn Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hackerone)
5. [HackerOne Job Board](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hackerone)

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