Job Summary

Coupa's Security Engineer is a key part of the Red Team, responsible for challenging and improving the company's security posture by simulating real-world attacks. This role will involve executing programs and tools to protect the Coupa Cloud for our growing customer base. This is a hands-on role. We need people who are self-motivated, have a solid desire to learn, a can-do attitude, tenacity to solve problems, team players, and results-focused.

What You'll Do

- Conduct penetration testing on internally and externally hosted applications such as Web apps, Mobile Apps, AI/LLM and APIs, leveraging both traditional and AI-powered tools.

- Perform specialized security assessments and penetration testing on Coupa's AI and LLM integrations, specifically targeting prompt injection, jailbreaking, data poisoning, and model evasion.

- Develop, deploy, and manage AI agents for continuous and autonomous security testing and vulnerability discovery.

- Identify network and system vulnerabilities and provide recommended countermeasures or mitigating controls to reduce risk to an acceptable and manageable level.

- Perform penetration and remediation testing reporting and apply advanced penetration techniques in a fast-paced, highly technical environment.

- Maintain, support, and extend our application security tooling, standards, and processes, including but not limited to SAST, DAST, WAF, and emerging AI-based security analysis platforms.

What You Will Bring to Coupa

- Strong experience in web / API security,



with a focus on testing and defending against attacks on AI/ML systems.

- Familiarity with Cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, GCP.

- Hands on experience in handling and managing bug bounty programs.

- Proficiency in one or more scripting languages, with a strong preference for Python for AI/ML development.

- Knowledge of common application security issues (e.g. OWASP Top 10, SANS Top 25) and familiarity with the OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Models.

- Well-versed with pentest standards/frameworks such as PTES, OSSTMM, NIST, OSINT, and OWASP.

- Ability to translate complex, technical security findings into actionable business risks for non-technical stakeholders and executive leadership.

- Ability to work in a team environment.

- 2+ years of experience in an equivalent security-related role, with hands-on experience in AI-driven security testing.

- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science (or equivalent), or equivalent experience.

- Hands-on Experience in developing or utilizing autonomous, agentic systems for security penetration testing.

- Proven track record of building and maintaining cross-functional relationships, effectively navigating organizational friction to implement necessary security improvements.

- Relevant security certifications are a plus, but not required (CEH, OSCP, GPEN, LPT, eJPT).

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📌 Security Engineer - Red Team (Pune)
🏢 Coupa
📍 Pune