About Astra:
Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 9300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.
Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities.
We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.
With over 18,000 vulnerabilities detected daily, Astra is building the next generation of autonomous security testing.

Role Overview
A frontier model alone cannot reliably perform penetration testing.



The real challenge lies in building the harness around it: orchestrating models and tools, validating findings, evaluating accuracy, and optimizing cost and performance.
As an AI Engineer, Autonomous Pentesting, you will build and productionize AI-powered security testing systems, combining LLM engineering, backend development, and security evaluation to deliver reliable autonomous pentesting at scale.

What You'll Do
• Build AI agents: Develop and productionize autonomous pentesting workflows across web applications, APIs, mobile, and cloud.
• Engineer LLM workflows: Implement prompting, tool calling, agent orchestration, retrieval, and context management.
• Optimize models: Orchestrate frontier and open-weight models, exploring distillation and fine-tuning to improve cost and performance.
• Build backend systems: Develop scalable REST APIs, asynchronous workflows, distributed services, and productive d

📌 SDE 2 Backend Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Astra Security
📍 Bengaluru