Product Security Analyst, Events Team

HackerOne is the global leader in human-powered security, harnessing the creativity of the world's largest community of security researchers with cutting-edge AI to protect your digital assets. The HackerOne Platform combines the expertise of our elite community and the most up-to-date vulnerability database to pinpoint critical security flaws across your attack surface. Our integrated solutions, including bug bounty, pentesting, code security audits, spot checks, and AI red teaming, ensure continuous vulnerability discovery and management throughout the software development lifecycle. Trusted by industry leaders such as Coinbase, General Motors, GitHub, Goldman Sachs, Hyatt, PayPal, and the U.S. Department of Defense, HackerOne was named a Best Workplace for Innovators by Fast Company in 2023 and a Most Loved Workplace for Young Professionals in 2024.

Position Summary

HackerOne is seeking a dynamic individual with a passion for Information Security to join our Triage Events team. As a Security Analyst for Live Hacking Events, you will gain hands-on technical experience and exposure to some of the world's best hackers while delivering high-impact vulnerabilities to the top bug bounty programs in the industry.

This role requires excellent communication skills, a sense of urgency, intellectual curiosity and drive to acquire the technical skills you'll need to ensure every valid bug report is reproducible and provides value to HackerOne customers.

At HackerOne, we embrace a Flexible Work approach, enabling our team members to work remotely while maintaining productivity and collaboration. We are seeking candidates located in Washington, D.C. or London, UK , and the surrounding metropolitan areas, to facilitate occasional in-person interactions as needed. While the position is primarily remote, there will be periodic in-person requirements to support team collaboration and foster stronger connections. This approach ensures flexibility while providing opportunities to build meaningful in-person relationships that strengthen our team and company culture.

What You Will Do

Evaluate vulnerability reports submitted by hackers to determine the validity, risk and severity to HackerOne customers

Collaborate with hackers to understand complex chained vulnerabilities that will grow your skills daily

Ensure clear and efficient communication between hackers, customers and other team mates

Proactively identify and solve issues, as well as accept and quickly respond to delegated work; as we are distributed, being able to win as a team to solve problems is critical to our success

Independently reproduce reported vulnerabilities in a test environment and compose a technical summary for valid reports that includes clear and concise details regarding the impact, steps to reproduce and remediation advice

Thrive in a collaborative collective environment where hackers, customers and security analysts have the best experience.

Self-motivated interest in emerging technologies and their impact on securing the digital world

Minimum Qualifications

3 years of experience doing security testing or ethical hacking on web and mobile applications

Proven experience with vulnerability disclosure and bug bounty (experience managing a bug bounty program is a plus but not required)

Strong technical knowledge of OWASP top 10

Comfortable using security testing tools including Burpsuite

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Experience using frameworks such as CVSS

Ability and willingness to travel globally at least 3-5 times a year

Self-motivated and able to manage your time and energy output while maintaining a consistent and sustainable operational rhythm

English fluency

Compensation Bands :

Washington, D.C. Area

115K - $130K

• Offers Equity

London, UK Area

64K - 80K

LI-Remote

LI-HM1

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

Flexible Work Stipend

We are a Circle Back Initiative Employer and commit to responding to every applicant.

We're committed to building a global team! For certain roles outside the United States, U.K., and the Netherlands, we partner with Remote.com as our Employer of Record (EOR).

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.

HackerOne Values

HackerOne commits to maintaining a strong, inclusive culture built for our employees and our community of hackers. We are driven by our five core values. We recognize that our mission is bigger than us, and therefore act with integrity at all times. As a team, we believe that transparency builds trust so we default to disclosure in our communications. Each individual executes with excellence , creating an environment of greater alignment and greater autonomy. We win as a team and respect all people to empower everyone to learn from each other, innovate, and grow.

Compensation Range : $115K - $130K

Salary : $115,000 - $130,000