Senior Software Engineer - Security / AI
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About the role
As the Lead Security Researcher, you will guide and mentor a team of 3 talented security researchers. You'll set technical direction, champion innovation, and ensure research translates into impactful production solutions. This is a hands-on leadership role where your expertise will accelerate our AI-driven detection capabilities and make a tangible impact on the future of automated security.
Responsibilities
- Agentic scanning systems: Build systems that autonomously explore applications, maintain context, and execute complex testing strategies.
- Security detection engine : Design and implement reliable, production-grade vulnerability detection logic (injection, auth issues, business logic flaws, etc.).
- AI-driven testing: Integrate LLMs and structured reasoning into scanning workflows to improve coverage and reduce false positives.
- Distributed infrastructure: Work on systems that orchestrate thousands of concurrent scans (Kubernetes, queues, resource management).
- Performance & reliability: Ensure scans are fast, deterministic, and cost-efficient despite high complexity and concurrency.
- Core platform design: Contribute to architecture decisions around memory systems, execution environments, and data models.
- Our Tech Stack & Focus
- Languages: Python (primary), Go (performance/network components)
- Runtime: Containerized workloads on Kubernetes (EKS), supporting long and resource-intensive scans
- Scaling: Kubernetes Jobs & queue-driven autoscaling
- Web Automation: Playwright + headless Chromium
- Data: PostgreSQL, S3-compatible object storage, Redis (limited use)
- Messaging: Kafka
- Observability: OpenTelemetry, Grafana Cloud
- CI/CD & Infra: GitLab CI, Terraform
Requirements
- Experience in application security (web security, pentesting, bug bounty, etc.)
- Exposure to AI/LLM-based systems
- Familiarity with browser automation or large-scale distributed systems
- Ready to lead the next wave of AI-powered vulnerability detection? Apply now to join Escape and make a real impact in cybersecurity!
Benefits
Additional Information
Location: Paris (75002) | Hybrid (2 days remote/week) About Escape Join Escape, a fast-growing leader in AI-powered cybersecurity. Our mission-driven engineering team (18 engineers, 4 technical leads, 3 product owners) is dedicated to redefining application security with cutting-edge detection and automation. Led by CEO Tristan Kalos and CTO Antoine Carossio, we operate at the forefront of technology and research from our Paris office.
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