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 proprietary DAST algorithm to detect business logic vulnerabilities
3. Reduce developer remediation overhead with code fixes
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 proprietary DAST algorithm to detect business logic vulnerabilities
3. Reduce developer remediation overhead with code fixes
What they do: AI-driven DAST and automated API discovery focusing on business-logic vulnerabilities for modern stacks (APIs, SPAs, GraphQL, microservices)
Recent funding: Seed round announced Jun 2023 (~$3.9M / €3.6M)
Headcount (approx.): 60
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Company Overview
Problem Domain
Application and API security focused on business-logic vulnerabilities in modern web architectures.
Founded
2020
Industry
Computer and Network Security
Funding Track Record
Seed- Jun 2023
$3.9M (≈€3.6M)
Announced Jun 6, 2023; participation from Frst, Y Combinator, Irregular Expressions, Tiny Supercomputers, Kima Ventures and angels
Investor Signal
“Backed by Y Combinator (YC Winter 2023) and multiple early-stage investors including IRIS Capital, Frst, Irregular Expressions, Tiny Supercomputers, and Kima Ventures”
Founders
What we do
Join the Team
Platform Software Engineer
Hybrid219 Rue Saint-Denis, 75002 Paris, France, FR
Hybrid • 219 Rue Saint-Denis, 75002 Paris, France, FR
👉 We are seeking a Platform Software Engineer to join Escape and help build the foundations that power our security scanning platform at scale. This role sits at the intersection of infrastructure, reliability, and software engineering. You will contribute directly to the reliability and scalability of Escape’s production systems, while also building internal platform tools used daily by our scanners and AI-driven components.
As part of the Platform team, you will work on the infrastructure that runs Escape as well as on shared services that enable other engineering teams to operate efficiently and safely.
Context
Location: Paris (75002), 2 days remote/week
Company: Escape – Leading AI Cybersecurity Startup
📚 A place to learn and grow: Unlimited access to books and online courses to help you excel in your role
💻 Tech perks: Get the latest tech gear, including Apple (or not) equipment and ultra-wide screen, to do your best work
🎁 Open Source: Free time to work on cool Open Source Projects.
🌎 Global exposure: Present groundbreaking research at top international conferences, like APIDays (Paris, London, New York), GraphQL Conference (San Francisco), bSides (Berlin, Milan, Oslo, Stockholm…), etc- 2+ years of experience: Proven experience as a Software or Platform Engineer, ideally within a platform, SRE, or DevOps-oriented team.
🤓 1 meeting with the HR representative - 30 minutes
💻 Technical challenge
🤔 1 technical deep dive with the Technical Lead - 1 hour
👋 1 personal experience interview the Head of Engineering - 1 hour
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Platform Reliability: Contribute to the reliability, availability, and scalability of Escape’s infrastructure, ensuring production systems remain robust as usage grows.
Infrastructure Engineering: Design, operate, and improve cloud-native infrastructure running on Kubernetes, with a strong focus on automation and reproducibility.
Internal Platform Services: Develop and maintain shared services and tools used by other teams, such as browser provisioning for scanners, LLM inference infrastructure, and state or memory systems for LLM-based agents.
Infrastructure as Code: Build and maintain infrastructure using IaC practices, enabling safe, repeatable changes across environments.
Operational Excellence: Participate in operational workflows, including deployments, incident response, and post-incident analysis, with a reliability-oriented mindset.
Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with product, scanners, and security research teams to understand their needs and provide scalable platform primitives.
Security Foundations: Contribute to improving the security posture of Escape’s platform, with increasing responsibility over time.
Cloud & Infrastructure: Kubernetes (EKS), cloud-native infrastructure on a major cloud provider
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
Execution Model: Containerized workloads running at scale, including long-running and resource-intensive jobs
Platform Services: Internal services supporting scanners and AI components (e.g. browser provisioning, LLM inference, shared state for agents)
Data & Storage: PostgreSQL, object storage (S3-compatible)
Messaging & Coordination: Queue-based and event-driven systems using Kafka
Observability: Metrics, logs, and tracing using OpenTelemetry and Grafana Cloud
CI/CD: GitLab CI with continuous delivery
Engineering Focus: Reliability, scalability, and building platform primitives that enable other engineering teams
Platform Exposure: Prior experience working on a platform or infrastructure team supporting other engineering teams.
Reliability Mindset: Solid understanding of reliability, scalability, and operational concerns in production systems.
Kubernetes Experience: Hands-on experience deploying and operating workloads on Kubernetes.
Cloud Expertise: Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider.
Infrastructure as Code: Practical experience using IaC tools to manage cloud or Kubernetes infrastructure.
Scale-Up Environment: Experience working in a fast-growing startup or scale-up, comfortable with evolving systems and priorities.
Collaborative Spirit: Ability to work effectively with other engineers and teams, and to communicate clearly about technical trade-offs.
Motivation: Interest in building foundational systems and tooling that enable other engineers to move faster and more safely.We respect your time and will make it quick and efficient. The entire process will be completed within1 week.
