Senior Data Engineer

Location : Pune

Work model : In office

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, 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.

Position Summary

HackerOne is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead the discovery, architecture, and development of high-performance, scalable data products and solutions. Joining our growing, distributed organization, you'll be instrumental in building the foundation that powers HackerOne's enterprise transformation from human-powered operations to data-driven, AI-powered, and human-led agentic operations.

You’ll achieve success by leading with AI-first thinking, demonstrating agility through change, applying first-principles problem solving, and using data to learn and adapt along the way. Leveraging your technological expertise, domain knowledge, and dedication to business objectives, you'll drive innovation to propel HackerOne forward.

Enterprise Data & AI Mission

Enterprise Data & AI provides the data and systems to enable our enterprise transformation from human-powered operations to data-driven, AI-powered, and human-led agentic operations. This data and systems infrastructure includes autonomous AI agents handling routine or repeatable work and centralized AI and data infrastructure for cross-org leverage.

What You Will Do

Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of scalable, secure, and intelligent data products and solutions that support HackerOne’s transformation into an AI-first organization.
Partner across business and engineering teams to identify high-leverage opportunities for automation, integration, and system modernization.
Drive the architecture and execution of platform-level capabilities, leveraging AI and modern tooling to reduce manual effort, improve decision-making, and increase system resilience.
Provide technical leadership to internal engineers and external development partners, ensuring design quality, operational excellence, and long-term maintainability.
Shape and contribute to our incident and on-call response strategy, playbooks, and processes, focusing on building systems that fail gracefully and recover quickly.
Act as a multiplier to mentor other engineers, advocate for technical excellence, and promote a culture of innovation, curiosity, and continuous improvement.
Champion effective change management and enablement, ensuring systems are not only launched, but adopted, understood, and evolved.

Minimum Qualifications

6+ years of experience in a Data, Engineering, Science, or similar role w/ proven track record of leading the design, development, and deployment of AI-first data products and solutions (preferably using Python).
Extensive hands-on experience building and optimizing data pipelines, products, and solutions.
Strong SQL for data manipulation and programming skills.
Knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
Extensive experience working with various data technologies and tools such as Airflow, Snowflake, Meltano, Fivetran, DBT, Looker, and AWS.
Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi
Proven track record of successfully championing new initiatives focused on architectural enhancements.
Proven track record of having substantial impact across the company, demonstrating your ability to drive positive change and achieve significant results.
Passion for working backwards from the Customer and empathy for business stakeholders.
Excellent communication skills, and can present data-driven narratives in verbal, presentation, and written formats.

Preferred Qualifications

Proven track record of driving innovation, adopting emerging technologies, and implementing industry best practices.
Experience building and managing a cloud deployed data lake
Experience working with Kubernetes.
Experience working with Agile and iterative development processes.
Understanding of network architecture.

Interview Process

Hiring Manager round
Technical Interview (coding)
Team Interview
Leadership round along with a assignment

(Round 2 and 3 will be scheduled paralleling)

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 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.

Minimum Qualifications

6+ years of experience in a Data, Engineering, Science, or similar role w/ proven track record of leading the design, development, and deployment of AI-first data products and solutions (preferably using Python).

Extensive hands-on experience building and optimizing data pipelines, products, and solutions.

Strong SQL for data manipulation and programming skills.

Knowledge of algorithms and data structures.

Extensive experience working with various data technologies and tools such as Airflow, Snowflake, Meltano, Fivetran, DBT, Looker, and AWS.

Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi

Proven track record of successfully championing new initiatives focused on architectural enhancements.

Proven track record of having substantial impact across the company, demonstrating your ability to drive positive change and achieve significant results.

Passion for working backwards from the Customer and empathy for business stakeholders.

Excellent communication skills, and can present data-driven narratives in verbal, presentation, and written formats.

Preferred Qualifications

Proven track record of driving innovation, adopting emerging technologies, and implementing industry best practices.

Experience building and managing a cloud deployed data lake

Experience working with Kubernetes.

Experience working with Agile and iterative development processes.

Understanding of network architecture.

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 as our Employer of Record (EOR).

Visa/work permit sponsorship is not available.

Employment at HackerOne is contingent on a background check.

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.