Full-Time

Security Advocate

AI AppSec

Updated on 8/18/2026

Escape Technologies

Escape Technologies

1-10 employees

API security platform with inventory and testing

No salary listed

Europe

Remote

Regular travel is required for conferences, meetups, and community events.

Category
IT & Security (1)
Required Skills
Public Speaking
Cybersecurity
Vulnerability Analysis
Penetration Testing
DevOps
Requirements
  • Strong technical knowledge of cybersecurity, ideally in application security, offensive security, penetration testing, web/API security, or developer security.
  • Ability to understand vulnerabilities and technical concepts deeply enough to explain and demonstrate them independently.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to make complex security topics clear, interesting, and entertaining.
  • Genuine interest in cybersecurity culture and its communities.
  • Confidence engaging with highly technical audiences online and in person.
  • Curiosity and a strong research mindset, with motivation to understand how systems work and what can break.
  • Willingness to create technical content, including writing, videos, demos, talks, and live sessions.
  • Comfort with regular travel for conferences, meetups, and community events.
  • Excellent spoken and written English.
Responsibilities
  • Serve as a subject matter expert on application and cloud security at industry events, conferences, and webinars.
  • Create and deliver blogs, videos, presentations, and technical documentation that educate and inform.
  • Work directly with customers to understand their challenges, provide best-practice guidance, and gather feedback for product improvement.
  • Build relationships with developer, security, and DevSecOps communities to amplify the company's message.
  • Stay informed about security threats, trends, and best practices, sharing insights internally and externally.
  • Partner with Product, Sales, and Engineering to ensure solutions address customer challenges.

Escape Technologies offers an API security platform that provides API inventory, security testing, and business logic testing within the CI/CD pipeline. It gives visibility into all exposed APIs, including shadow and zombie APIs, without needing API traffic, and uses an AI-powered scanner to detect risks like OWASP Top 10 and BOLA. Its Feedback Driven API Exploration algorithm discovers vulnerabilities that traditional DAST tools may miss and provides remediation guidance with code snippets tailored to the tech stack. The platform targets security engineers and developers to enable DevSecOps and help with compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS), and has secured over 1,000 organizations, is a Y Combinator 2023 graduate, with about $4.4M in funding.

Company Size

1-10

Company Stage

Early VC

Total Funding

$100K

Headquarters

Fremont, California

Founded

2018

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Escape raised $18M on March 10, 2026, funding U.S. and Europe expansion.
  • Escape claims deployment across 2,000 security teams globally, supporting enterprise sales momentum.
  • July 2026 product releases deepen remediation workflows, reducing time-to-fix for security and developers.

What critics are saying

  • Wiz, Palo Alto Networks, and Snyk can bundle similar AI testing into existing platforms by 2027.
  • Escape’s March 2026 hiring push risks expensive burn before repeatable enterprise retention proves out.
  • If agentic pentesting commoditizes, Escape becomes a feature, not a company, within 24 months.

What makes Escape Technologies unique

  • Escape’s AI agents replace legacy scanners with discovery, testing, and remediation inside workflows.
  • July 2026 updates let developers prompt agents with issue context, CVSS, assets, and CVEs.
  • Balderton’s March 2026 Series A validates Escape’s shift from API scanning to agentic pentesting.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Meal Benefits

Gym Membership

Hybrid Work Options

Stock Options

Conference Attendance Budget

Professional Development Budget