Application Security Engineer / Penetration tester

Location: Anywhere

Department: Cybersecurity

Growe welcomes those who are excited to:

• Triage, validate, and prioritize security findings from SAST, SCA, and Secret scanning tools, filter out false positives, assess risks, and track issues through to remediation;

• Conduct manual and tool-assisted code reviews to identify security vulnerabilities, logic flaws, and insecure implementation choices before code reaches production;

• Perform hands-on penetration testing of web applications, microservices, and APIs to uncover security vulnerabilities and business logic flaws; 

• Audit REST and GraphQL APIs and web applications with a strong focus on core application security risks, authentication, authorization, and business logic.

We need your professional experience:

• 2-4 years of experience in Application Security, Product Security, or Penetration Testing; 

• Hands-on experience triaging and analyzing findings from Semgrep / OpenGrep, Gitleaks, Trivy, and OSV-Scanner;

• Experience with Burp Suite (Pro), Nuclei, Subfinder, SQLmap, Metasploit, and NetExec; 

• Deep understanding of classic OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, including Injection flaws (SQLi, Command Injection), Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF), Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), Broken Access Control / Insecure Direct Object References (IDOR / BOLA), Security Misconfigurations, Cryptographic Failures, Insecure Deserialization, and Mass Assignment;

• Solid knowledge of OWASP API Security Top 10 for REST and GraphQL architectures; 

• Deep understanding of identity protocols and access control mechanics (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, SAML, RBAC/ABAC);

• Ability to identify complex authorization bypasses, session management flaws, and business logic bugs;

• Ability to read and analyze modern application code to spot security flaws (will be a plus); 

• Understanding of cloud security principles in AWS environments and Kubernetes (K8s) security fundamentals (will be a plus);

• Intermediate level of English (spoken and written).

We appreciate if you have those personal features:

• Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with engineering, product, and DevOps teams;

• Result-oriented mindset;

• Openness to learning.

We are seeking those who align with our core values:

• GROWE TOGETHER: Our team is our main asset. We work together and support each other to achieve our common goals;

• DRIVE RESULT OVER PROCESS: We set ambitious, clear, measurable goals in line with our strategy and driving Growe to success;

• BE READY FOR CHANGE: We see challenges as opportunities to grow and evolve. We adapt today to win tomorrow.