Penetration Tester

Energy Innovation Corp; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 64,000 - 102,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Leadership growth path

Job summary

Social Innovation Lab in Sacramento, CA is seeking a junior Penetration Tester to build, test, and deploy Security Auditing services. The role offers ownership early in your career and a clear path to leadership within technology.

You will turn vague tickets into testable criteria, ship fixes the same day, and help improve the reliability of our security tests while collaborating across teams.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of security testing or pen-testing experience.
• Familiarity with Endpoint Detection and Response.
• Willingness to work in Sacramento, CA.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical tasks.

Responsibilities

• Turn vague technology tickets into crisp, testable acceptance criteria.
• Ship OSCP fixes to Social Innovation Lab customers in Sacramento, CA the same day they report them.
• Resurrect flaky security auditing tests until the Sacramento, CA suite is trustworthy again.
• Spot the endpoint detection and response anti-pattern before it spreads within Social Innovation Lab.
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for production environments.
• Translate results-oriented business requirements into technical specifications and tasks.

Skills

EDR results

Security testing

Team collaboration

Ambiguity handling

Sacramento familiarity

Job description

As our new junior Penetration Tester, you will build, test, and deploy Security Auditing services that keep our business running. The headline is $64,000 - $102,000, but the story is ownership — technology work you steer at Social Innovation Lab after just 1 years.

Key Responsibilities

• Turn vague technology tickets into crisp, testable Relationship Building acceptance criteria
• Ship OSCP fixes to Social Innovation Lab customers in Sacramento, CA the same day they report them
• Resurrect flaky Security Auditing tests until the Sacramento, CA suite is trustworthy again
• Spot the gently-demanding Endpoint Detection and Response anti-pattern in review before it spreads through Social Innovation Lab
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for data-honest production environments
• Translate results-oriented business requirements into technical specifications and tasks

What You'll Bring

• Comfort navigating ambiguity when the brief arrives half-written
• A collaborator who makes the junior review feel less like an exam
• Curiosity that outpaces your current job description
• Proven Endpoint Detection and Response results, ideally seasoned in Sacramento, CA
• 1+ years navigating the politics that technology work attracts

Social Innovation Lab is the quick-to-ship CA company that built its name on technology work nobody else wanted to do properly. We treat every new Penetration Tester as a fresh set of eyes, so tell us what looks broken.

This position offers $64,000 - $102,000, comprehensive benefits, and genuine room to advance into leadership within technology.

Marked current today, the full-time opportunity at Social Innovation Lab is accepting candidates.