Penetration Tester

Energy Innovation Corp; Oceanside (CA); On-site; USD 69,000 - 105,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship built in

Job summary

Blue Cross Blue Shield in Oceanside, CA is seeking a Penetration Tester to spend more time on SAST and less in meetings, with job flexibility and mentorship. The role emphasizes delivering security improvements in a fast-growing engineering shop, with a clear path to senior technology work and ongoing professional development.

A 1-year experience requirement and a strong emphasis on empathy guide the selection.

Qualifications

• 1 year of experience in security testing or related field.
• Empathy for user-focused engineering culture.
• Ability to support cross-functional teams in a junior capacity.
• Reliability to handle hard assignments.
• History of improving technology processes.

Responsibilities

• Reverse‑engineer the performance-driven Teamwork format Blue Cross Blue Shield inherited and never documented.
• Ship incremental improvements to Blue Cross Blue Shield's Oceanside platform on a regular cadence.
• Keep the technology Threat Modeling service humming through Oceanside's holiday traffic surge.
• Champion engineering excellence and continuous learning within Blue Cross Blue Shield.
• Ensure code quality through automated linting, testing, and static analysis.

Skills

Empathy

Grit

Risk assessment

Cross-functional collaboration

Junior capacity experience

Job description

Our next Penetration Tester will spend less time in meetings and more time in SAST, which is how Blue Cross Blue Shield prefers to operate. The shape of it is simple — bring 1 years and Empathy, take home $69,000 - $105,000, and grow into whatever Blue Cross Blue Shield builds next.

Key Responsibilities

• Reverse-engineer the performance-driven Teamwork format Blue Cross Blue Shield inherited and never documented
• Ship incremental improvements to Blue Cross Blue Shield's Oceanside platform on a regular cadence
• Keep the technology Threat Modeling service humming through Oceanside's holiday traffic surge
• Champion engineering excellence and continuous learning within Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Ensure code quality through automated linting, testing, and static analysis

What You'll Bring

• The grit to debug at 4pm on a Friday without complaint
• The reflex to surface risk before it surfaces itself
• Experience supporting cross-functional teams in a junior capacity
• The kind of reliability that earns you the hard assignments
• A history of leaving technology processes better than you found them

Blue Cross Blue Shield is a fast-growing engineering shop in Oceanside, CA where PKI and Empathy are treated as the same discipline. You set the boundaries of your part-time schedule and we respect them without the side-eye.

Compensation lands at $69,000 - $105,000, mentorship is built in, and the path from here to senior technology work is mapped, not vague.

Marked current today, the part-time opportunity at Blue Cross Blue Shield is accepting candidates.

Bring 1 of grit or a fresh perspective; either way, this Penetration Tester role wants you.