Penetration Tester (Canada)

Packetlabs; Canada; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

GRRSP with corporate matching inCanada

Corporate benefit plans in Canada

Fully remote within Canada

Flexible work environment

Job summary

Packetlabs is seeking an experienced developer/application security tester to join our team. You will perform penetration testing of web applications, mobile apps, thick clients, and APIs, and deliver detailed remediation reports.

We value ethical hackers and require OSCP or Burp certification, with 3–5 years of pen testing experience. This role is fully remote within Canada and offers competitive compensation and growth.

Qualifications

• Experience in web services and data exchange formats (XML, JSON, SOAP, REST, AJAX).
• Understanding of AI/LLM weaknesses in applications.
• Experience with attack proxies (Burp Suite preferred).
• 3–5 years in penetration testing/consulting is preferred.
• OSCP or Burp certification mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Penetration testing of web applications, mobile applications, thick clients, and APIs.
• Source code review and white-box testing to prove impacts.
• Reverse engineering of mobile and thick client apps.
• Chain vulnerabilities to other areas with potential lateral movement.
• Develop detailed reports on findings and remediations for executive and technical audiences.
• Perform SAST and DAST on enterprise, SaaS, and in-house apps.
• Experience with scanners and reducing false positives.
• Strong OWASP knowledge across Web/API/Mobile/AI/LLM.

Skills

Customer-first mentality

Great communicator

Rapid responses

Attention to detail

Self-motivated

Willingness to learn

Humility

Education

College/University degree

2+ years information security tasks

OSCP/OSWE/BSCP certification

Tools

Burp Suite

Job description

Packetlabs was built by an ethical hacker after seeing vulnerability assessments presented as penetration tests. Our sloga n "Ready for more than a VA scan?" drives at the importance of not providing our clients with a false sense of security.

We are a passionate team of highly trained, proactive, penetration testers. We provide expert-level penetration testing services that are thorough and tailored to help foster a safe digital space where everyone has the right to privacy and security. Packetlabs consultants find weaknesses others overlook and continuously learn new ways to evade controls. We hold ourselves to a very high standard.

To do so, we only hire individuals with the same drive and passion.

Who we are looking for

• Core values:
• You have a customer-first mentality. Is a great communicator with clients, project managers, and teammates. Rapid responses and on time.
• You deliver work that you take pride in. Your work is an autograph of your excellence.
• You dig deeper into every finding. Doesn't stop until impact is proven.
• You are comfortable being uncomfortable. Goes towards obstacles, not away from them. Consulting isn't your typical job and requires adapting to rapidly changing environments.
• You are always learning. Cybersecurity is changing every day, and you need to keep up or want to keep up. Be deeply aware of your skillset and be willing to improve.
• You are Self-motivated and dependable.
• You are humble. Egos don't have a place at Packetlabs.
• Education and experience:
• We are looking for an experienced developer/application security tester to join our team:
• Familiarity with web services and data exchange formats such as XML, JSON, SOAP, REST, and AJAX.
• Understanding of AI/LLM weaknesses and flaws in applications.
• Extensive experience/expertise in using an attack proxy (e.g. Burp Suite)
• Preferred if you have 3 - 5 years of experience working in penetration testing and consulting
• A graduate of a post-secondary college or university degree program.
• Has at least two years of experience dealing with information security-related tasks.
• Has professional qualifications (one or more): OSCP, OSWE, BSCP.
• OSCP or Burp is mandatory for our organization.

What you’ll be doing

• Your primary role is to perform penetration testing of web applications, mobile applications, thick clients, and APIs.
• Source code review and whitebox penetration testing to prove the impact of application flaws.
• Reverse engineering of mobile and thick client applications.
• You sometimes chain application flaws to other areas, such as cloud and on-prem AD infrastructure. Opportunities for lateral movement into the infrastructure teams are limited and given at the manager's discretion.
• Develop detailed reports on findings and remediations for impactful findings. You will learn to debrief these findings at both a technical and executive level.
• Perform SAST and DAST on enterprise, SaaS, and custom in-house applications.
• Experience in using scanners and knowledge of validation and elimination of false positives.
• A strong understanding of OWASP in Web, API, Mobile, and AI/LLM is necessary, but you will be asked to go beyond.

Why us?

• The opportunity to work on high-stakes hardware engagements where your judgment and bench skills genuinely matter
• Receive immediate and ongoing offensive security training, mentorship, and professional development to advance your technical capabilities
• Play a key role in shaping the growth, direction, and methodology of Packetlabs' expanding hardware practice
• A leadership team that values substance, quality, and disciplined execution
• Collaboration with a highly skilled team of security professionals who are passionate about technical excellence and raising the bar
• Competitive compensation and growth opportunity
• GRRSP with corporate matching in Canada
• Participation in corporate benefit plans within Canada
• Flexible work environment that empowers employees to do their best work
• Fully remote within Canada

The pay range for this role is:

90,000 - 120,000 CAD per year (Remote (Florida))