Senior Penetration Tester, API, Web & Cloud

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DistribusionTravel technology
GermanyContractSenior
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Experience
5+ years of hands-on penetration testing
Required Skills
PythonKubernetesGo

Requirements

  • Bring 5+ years of hands-on penetration testing, mainly of web applications and APIs, with recent engagements led end to end.
  • Have practical knowledge of the OWASP API Security Top 10, WSTG and ASVS.
  • Understand authentication and authorization models, including OAuth2/OIDC and JWT.
  • Have experience with IDOR/BOLA, mass assignment, SSRF, injection and XSS.
  • Have found business-logic and race-condition vulnerabilities in transactional systems such as booking, e-commerce, payments or fintech.
  • Be fluent with Burp Suite Pro or similar.
  • Write scripts and tooling in Python, Go or similar.
  • Be comfortable assessing cloud and container environments, preferably GCP, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Be able to scope, prioritise, test and report independently with minimal guidance.
  • Explain complex risks plainly to engineers and leadership.
  • Be available to start at short notice.
  • OSCP, OSWE, BSCP or similar certifications are a bonus.
  • Experience red-teaming LLM applications or AI agents, or testing in PCI-DSS environments, is a bonus.

Responsibilities

  • Test partner-facing booking APIs against the OWASP API Security Top 10.
  • Assess API authentication and integrity, including OAuth 2.0/OIDC, API keys, JWTs, webhooks and request signing.
  • Hunt for business-logic abuse, race conditions and pricing manipulation in booking, checkout, payment and refund flows.
  • Run authenticated tests of web and mobile apps using OWASP WSTG and ASVS.
  • Review cloud, Kubernetes and CI/CD configurations and secrets handling for application-related attack paths.
  • Map and regularly test the internet-facing attack surface.
  • Red-team AI features against the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications.
  • Write reproducible, risk-rated findings with remediation guidance, walk engineers through fixes and verify them with retests.
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