
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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Who are we? 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.
Job Description 👉 We are seeking a Security Researcher – Mid-level to join Escape and play a central role in advancing the detection capabilities of our DAST and ASM products.
This is an applied security role: think web pentester with strong coding skills . Your mission is to turn offensive security knowledge into scalable, production-grade detection logic.
You will focus on discovering new vulnerability detection techniques, improving existing algorithms, and ensuring Escape remains best-in-class in terms of accuracy, performance, and real-world relevance.
As part of the Security Research team, you will transform security insights and exploitation techniques into concrete detection logic that runs at scale in production. Your work will directly shape the effectiveness of Escape’s scanners and have a measurable impact on customer security outcomes.
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