Apify

Senior Security Engineer

Prague, Remote. Posted 4 days ago

The role

You will perform offensive security testing, research, and threat modeling on the Apify platform, AI agents, and AWS infrastructure. You will also focus on defense by helping engineers fix vulnerabilities and improving detection and automation.

What you will do

  • Attack the platform, AI agents, MCP servers, supply chain, and AWS
  • Use AI tools daily for pentesting, recon, code review, exploit development, and research
  • Follow new vulnerabilities, attack techniques, and threat actor activity
  • Map realistic attack paths for new features and architectural changes
  • Triage, reproduce, and rate reports from researchers, pentesters, and scanners
  • Agree on fixes with engineering and help run the vulnerability program
  • Use scripting and AI to scale triage pipelines, code review, and attack tooling
  • Hunt for signs of compromise and platform abuse
  • Turn findings into detections and support incident response

Required qualifications

  • 3+ years in offensive security, penetration testing, security research, AppSec, or a closely related field
  • Hands-on experience finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in web applications and APIs
  • Hands-on experience securing and breaking AWS environments (IAM, CloudTrail, GuardDuty)
  • Write own tools and automation in Python, Go, Bash, or similar
  • Experience with Burp Suite or similar, vulnerability scanners, SAST/DAST, and GitHub's security features
  • Use AI tools in daily work and understand how LLMs and AI agents can be attacked
  • Follow the security community and read new research
  • Explain technical risks clearly to developers and leadership
  • Self-starter mentality

Nice to have

  • Proficiency in Node.js/TypeScript
  • Familiarity with frameworks like SOC 2 or ISO 27001

Benefits

  • Space, support, and autonomy for personal growth
  • Option to work fully remotely
  • Flexible working hours
  • Nobody counts holidays as long as the work gets done
  • Unlimited Claude
  • Stock options and profit sharing
  • Free Apify credits for friends and family
  • Free Multisport card
  • Regular massages in the Prague office
  • Team buildings and offsites
  • Education and training budget, conference tickets, and internal sessions
  • Generous hardware budget

About the company

Apify is the largest marketplace of trusted tools for AI that automate work on the web. The platform manages infrastructure, billing, and distribution for a global community of builders.