Founding Engineer

ZeroPath is building an autonomous bug-fixer that finds and patches vulnerabilities across massive codebases. As one of our first outside hires at our fast-growing five-person company, your primary focus will be to help us design & improve this core, autonomous scanner. You’ll be expected to set an example for our engineering culture, and produce creative, customer-visible improvements quickly, without introducing technical debt. You’ll work directly with technical founders on problems of deep consequence.

Day-to-day responsibilities:

• Help us improve the scope and accuracy of our Python/LLM bugfinder
• Improve and extend the interfaces our customers use to triage & manage security problems at scale
• Scale our infrastructure to support millions of PR scans and full scans a month
• Design and build benchmarks for tools that detect vulnerabilities

Hard Requirements:

• U.S. Citizenship
• 2+ years professional programming experience or a portfolio that demonstrates equivalent contact with real-world codebases.

Signs you are a good fit include:

• You’re earnest & action-biased, and interested in working with other people who are similar.
• You have a good foundation of information security knowledge; enough to get through a Sam Curry blogpost.
• You take code quality and architecture seriously.
• You have existing, developed intuitions around good & bad software design, which you can explain to others in a cogent and lucid way.

Compensation & location:

• 125k-250k salary & 0.1-0.5% equity.
• Remote, with quarterly on-sites in the SF bay area. Offices available for candidates located in SF.

Candidates will generally complete:

• An initial technical interview to assess skills & culture fit (~60 minutes).
• Usually, a paid work-sample test. This work sample test is intended to be completed in one week, and can be finished part-time.

For some candidates with extremely strong resumes/recommendations, we may waive the work sample test.