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…
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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.
Context
Location
: Paris (75002), 2 days remote/week
What you will do
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:
Build and evolve backend systems that execute and orchestrate scanning workloads at scale
Improve reliability, isolation, and reproducibility of long-running scans
Design clean, maintainable abstractions around scanner execution and resource management
Optimize performance and cost efficiency of distributed workloads
Systematically reduce flakiness in browser-based and network-heavy scans
Partner with Security Research to integrate detection logic into production-ready components
Contribute to observability, monitoring, and incident resolution in production
Key Responsibilities:
Backend Engineering:
Design and implement production-grade backend services with strong attention to readability, testability, and maintainability.
Scalability & Concurrency:
Build systems that handle high-throughput, queue-driven workloads with predictable performance.
Tech Stack
Languages:
Python (primary), Go (performance/network-heavy components)
Perks
We respect your time and will make it quick and efficient.
The entire process will be completed within1 week
.
🤓 1 meeting with the
HR representative
30 minutes
💻 1
Coding
challenge - 1 hour
🤔 1
System Design
with the
Technical Lead
1 hour
👀 1
Technical Deep Dive
interview the
CTO
30 minutes
🚀 1
Impact & Ownership
interview with the
CEO
30 minutes
💌 Formal
hiring proposal
.
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📚 A place to learn and grow
: Access to books and online courses to help you excel in your role
💻 Top-tier equipment
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Free time to work on cool
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Projects.
🌎
Opportunities to present research and engineering work at international conferences like
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APIDays
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3–5 years of experience:
Backend engineering experience with solid software fundamentals and contributions to production systems.
Python Proficiency:
Comfortable building reliable, maintainable backend services in Python.
Distributed & Async Workloads:
Experience working with job queues, background workers, crawling, or data-processing pipelines.
Production Awareness:
Understanding of reliability, observability, performance constraints, and failure modes in real-world systems.
Scalability Fundamentals:
Good grasp of concurrency, resource management, and containerized or distributed environments.
Engineering Rigor:
Writes clean, testable code and makes pragmatic trade-offs with long-term maintainability in mind.
Bonus:
Experience with browser automation (Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium) or sandboxed execution environments.
