
Escape helps teams secure modern applications - APIs, Single Page Apps, and Microservices: 1. Document all your APIs in minutes—no traffic monitoring or complex integrations required 2. Leverage our…

Escape helps teams secure modern applications - APIs, Single Page Apps, and Microservices: 1. Document all your APIs in minutes—no traffic monitoring or complex integrations required 2. Leverage our…
Product: AI-powered offensive security platform for APIs, SPAs, and microservices (ASM, business-logic DAST, AI pentesting, remediation)
Founded / HQ signal: Paris-based startup
Funding: $3.9M seed (2023); $18M Series A (Mar 2026)
Team size: ~60 employees
Web and API application security (attack surface management, dynamic application security testing, AI-assisted pentesting and remediation).
Computer and Network Security
$3.9M
Raised shortly after participating in Y Combinator W23
$18M
Series A participation included Uncorrelated Ventures, IRIS, and Y Combinator
“Backed by stage-appropriate VCs including IRIS and Balderton Capital; participation from Y Combinator and several early-stage investors”
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Escape is one of Europe's fastest-growing cybersecurity startups, backed by Y Combinator, building AI-powered automated penetration testing that finds vulnerabilities before attackers do. We've secured dozens of prestigious enterprise customers, are growing 15%+ MoM.
We operate with a US go-to-market playbook (product-led, fast iteration cycles, aggressive growth targets) combined with deep European engineering DNA. Our 15-person engineering team ships weekly, owns what they build, and solves hard problems at the intersection of security, distributed systems, and AI.
At Escape, we build an automated security scanning platform that analyzes real customer applications at scale and surfaces high-signal, real-world vulnerabilities.
The challenge is not “run a scanner once.”
It’s running millions of reliable, isolated, cost-efficient analysis tasks across widely different application behaviors while keeping results accurate and production-grade.
We are looking for a Mid-level Backend Software Engineer to join the Security Scanners team.
You will work on the core systems that execute, scale, and operate our scanning workloads in production. You’ll collaborate closely with Security Research, who design detection logic, and turn that into robust, maintainable, high-performance software.
You will contribute directly to the design, implementation, and operation of the systems that power our scanning engine in production.
You will be expected to:
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