--- title: 'Staff Writer (Satire), the Exploit at Maze' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-writer-satire-the-exploit-maze-united-states-or-europe-xf6p9fefbqr3' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-02' --- # Staff Writer (Satire), the Exploit at Maze - **Company:** Maze - **Location:** United States or Europe - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-11-01 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-02 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mazehq/d66b6ab9-4e96-4146-9ac5-631e1c5a499a ## Job description Summary of the Role the Exploit ([theexploit.co](https://theexploit.co)) is the security and tech industry's most trusted source of news that didn't happen. It's a satirical publication from Maze, an AI-native security company, covering the breaches, vendor launches, board meetings, AI news and compliance audits that are hilarious and totally made up, even when they don't feel like it. We're hiring two satire content creators who can write a story and then turn it into a video. Each story runs as an article on the Exploit, then becomes a short social video, usually a 30- to 90-second news segment. If you can shoot and edit the video yourself, that's a big plus. If you can't, your scripts need to be good enough that we'll happily make them for you. We'll take a great writer with no camera over a great camera with nothing to say. Two formats we like: Matt Johansen's security news recaps, where one person covers one story fast with some comedy in it, and Ev Hand, who covers sports news in the article style we're after. Some of our top articles, so you can see what works: - French Locksmith Named Claude Launches Line of Padlocks; Cybersecurity Stocks Lose $18 Billion - Judge Sentences CISO to 8 Consecutive Hours on RSA Expo Floor - Meta Labs Proudly Announces Its AI Has Also Committed a Felony - Burnt-Out CISO Forced to Decline Michelin-Starred Round Table Dinner - Riot Breaks Out at Corporate Headquarters After Security Team Introduces Shift Left ## Your Contributions to Our Journey Writing - Pitch and write 400- to 700-word articles in the deadpan voice of a real newsroom covering an unreal industry - Pitch a lot of headlines and work them through with our team. The pieces are yours; we're there to keep the quality high. Video - Write, and ideally shoot and edit, short news-desk videos - Turn our best articles into video, and pitch video-first stories of your own Ideas - Test new formats, characters and recurring bits instead of repeating whatever worked last week - Bring material from your day job, with names changed to protect the guilty ## What You Need to Be Successful - Real practitioner experience. You've worked in cybersecurity (SOC, IR, red team, GRC, security engineering or similar), AppSec or product security, cloud security, or software engineering. - Not a marketer. This role isn't for content or marketing people. If your LinkedIn headline includes the word "storyteller", we respect you, and this isn't the role. Marketers haven't lived the life (neither has the person writing this JD), and the jokes only work if they're real. - Funny on the page and on camera, not "has a good personality" funny. - Tight writing. You know what works and what to cut. Your grammar can be sub-par; that's the easiest thing to fix. - Never punches down. We laugh with the burnt-out CISO, not at them. Vendors are fair game, and that includes Maze: we run the Exploit and we make fun of ourselves too. - Reliable. You ship 5 articles and 5 videos a month without anyone chasing you, and you cut the weak ones yourself. - Comfortable being named publicly. Your byline goes on every article, and your name, image, voice and likeness appear in the videos we publish and promote, including paid ads. Anonymous accounts and pen names won't work for this role. We know some employers have concerns about this, so you can do the work after hours. - Nice to Haves - You can shoot and edit your own short-form video - You've written sketch, standup, satire, or a security newsletter people actually read - You already post on X, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or LinkedIn How to Apply - 10 headlines. Your own, about security, AI or software, as they'd appear on the Exploit. We read all 10. - Video examples. Two or three short videos you've made, on any topic. If you haven't made videos before, record yourself telling one of the stories above in 30 seconds. - One sentence on your background. Your role, where you did it, and the worst thing you've seen in production. ## Why Join Us - Get paid to roast your industry, its vendors and more. The material you've been collecting at work finally has somewhere to go. - Upside when a piece lands. We pay like a creator program, not a newsroom, so your best work earns more. - A small team. We're starting with two or three people, not forty, so you get real feedback and a direct line to the team. - Keep your day job. The role is remote and flexible, and we'd honestly prefer you keep it, since that's where the material comes from. ## Compensation $600 a month base for 5 articles and 5 videos. Any extra content or videos requested by Maze staff beyond the base are agreed project by project. When one of your pieces performs organically, we often put ad money behind it. If we do, you earn 3% of the spend on top of your base for as long as the ads run. For example, if we spend $5,000 USD on ads, you make $150 more. This is a contractor role with Maze, not the Exploit. ## About Maze ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Maze uses AI agents to investigate and resolve cloud security vulnerabilities, automatically triaging and fixing the risks that matter. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Harry Wetherald (CEO), Adrian Jozwik (CPO), Santiago Castiñeira (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Computer and Network Security - **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (including Fortune 200 companies), high-growth technology firms - **Mission or purpose**: To give security teams AI-native tools to fight back against increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks by automating vulnerability investigation and remediation. ## Products & Services - **Maze AI Security Platform**: A suite of AI agents that investigate, triage, and resolve security vulnerabilities. The platform includes: - **Cloud Vulnerabilities**: Triage and remediate CVEs in containers and VMs, catch zero-days before scanners see them. - **Dependencies (AI-SCA)**: Find, triage, and remediate CVEs in third-party code. - **Your Code (AI-SAST)**: Find and fix business-logic vulnerabilities that static scanners miss, or triage results from existing scanners. - The platform is built from the ground up to use modern AI for autonomous investigations, replicating the workflow of expert human analysts. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric (Funding)**: $31 million in total funding - **Funding History**: - Pre-Seed (Dec 2023): Led by firedrop - Seed (Sep 2024): $6 million, led by Tapestry VC and Cherry Ventures - Series A (Jul 2025): $25 million, led by Theory Ventures - **Notable Investors**: Theory Ventures, Cherry Ventures, Tapestry VC - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount growth of +158.8% year-over-year (37 employees as of mid-2025) - Monthly employee growth of +10% - Deployed in production with over ten organizations, including two Fortune 200 companies - Expanding into new use cases for its AI-native security platform - Operates in 11 countries ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-Native Architecture**: Built from scratch to use modern AI for decision-making, instead of pre-defined logic and rules, allowing it to adapt to new threats. - **Autonomous Remediation**: AI agents don’t just find vulnerabilities; they trace each to its root cause, verify the fix, and send it to the engineer, reducing mean time to remediation from weeks to minutes. - **Contextual Intelligence**: Agents assemble context from code, runtime, cloud, and controls to understand the full environment, eliminating false positives. - **Cost Efficiency**: Agents learn when to use expensive AI models and when to rely on cost-efficient techniques, allowing for scalable operations. - **Founding Team Expertise**: Founders previously led product, design, and engineering teams at Tessian, Elastic, and Amazon. Engineering team includes veterans from Meta, Adyen, and Nvidia. ## Strategic Focus - **Product Expansion**: Developing a comprehensive, AI-native security platform with new agents for additional security use cases beyond cloud vulnerabilities. - **Team Growth**: Actively hiring across sales and engineering to meet strong market demand. - **Market Penetration**: Expanding customer base beyond early adopters (Fortune 200 and high-growth tech) into broader enterprise segments. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-Driven**: Opportunity to work on a critical problem—helping security teams fight back against AI-powered attackers with autonomous AI tools. - **Cutting-Edge Tech**: Work on frontier-level AI agents and reasoning models, building at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity. - **High Growth**: Company is scaling rapidly (158% headcount growth YoY) with strong investor backing, offering significant career growth opportunities. - **Remote-First Culture**: Roles are listed as remote, with a physical office in London. Employees work across 26 locations globally. - **Strong Engineering Culture**: 55% of staff are in technical roles, with a flat hierarchy (16% founders, 32% specialists, 11% senior). - **Diverse Team**: Employees across 11 countries including UK, Germany, Poland, US, Netherlands, and Spain. - **Open Roles**: Engineering Director, Backend Engineer (AI Agents), Product Engineer (Full Stack), Product Designer, Business Operations Manager, and Business Development Representative [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mazehq). ## Sources 1. [mazehq.com](https://mazehq.com/) 2. [uk.linkedin.com/company/mazehq](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/mazehq) 3. [builtin.com/company/maze-mazehqcom](https://builtin.com/company/maze-mazehqcom) 4. [businesswire.com](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250610372428/en/Maze-Launches-With-%2431-Million-for-Its-AI-Agents-That-Stop-Cloud-Security-Breaches) 5. 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