Sofia Stars is a fast-growing global service provider that guides high-growth businesses to success. Our range of tailored solutions includes R&D, Customer Support, Sales, KYC, Risk, and Anti-Fraud services. We make every connection shine with fresh tech and cultural understanding.
We invite a Senior Penetration Testerto join our team.
It's an office-based role – no remote or hybrid options.
✅ Responsibilities:
✔️ Lead end-to-end penetration testing engagements across web applications, APIs, mobile, internal and external networks and cloud (primarily AWS).
✔️ Run red-team and assumed-breach operations - initial access, privilege escalation, lateral movement, persistence, exfiltration - including against fraud and detection stacks. ✔️ Perform security reviews of cloud-native services, Kubernetes workloads, CI/CD pipelines, and microservices.
✔️ Discover and exploit vulnerabilities across real-money flows - payments, deposits and withdrawals, wallets, KYC / AML, bonus systems, and affiliate tracking.
✔️ Partner with product, engineering, AppSec, payments, and fraud teams to translate findings into concrete fixes and durable controls.
✔️ Develop custom tooling, scripts, and methodology where no out-of-the-box approach exists.
✔️ Build and validate declarative threat models and contribute to "secure by design" practice.
✔️ Mentor mid and junior testers, review their engagement plans and reports.
✔️ Track new CVEs, TTPs, MITRE ATT&CK updates, and regulator advisories - translate them into concrete changes here.
✔️ Support pre-sales scoping, effort estimation, and pre-certification engagements for new products and jurisdictions.
✔️ Serve as a trusted offensive-security advisor to product, engineering, and compliance teams.
✅ Requirements:
✔️ Minimum 4 years of hands-on penetration testing or offensive-security experience.
✔️ Proven track record across at least three of: web / API, internal, external network, cloud (AWS / GCP), mobile (iOS / Android).
✔️ OSCP or an equivalent in-the-box certification.
✔️ Strong working knowledge of SAST/SCA/DAST tooling, AWS/GCP, MITRE ATT&CK, OWASP ASVS / WSTG, PTES.
✔️ Understanding of the data flow, MVC model.
✔️ Understanding of supply chain attacks.
✔️ Good reporting skills.
✔️ Comfortable scripting in Python plus Bash.
✔️ Knowledge at least one of major cloud provider's IAM model.
✔️ Experience pentesting cloud-native systems and Kubernetes environments, plus the CI/CD pipelines around them (GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and IaC (Terraform, Helm, CloudFormation).
✔️ Strong written and verbal communication in English
✔️ Experience balancing security and business demands under release pressure.
✔️ Familiarity with industry regulations, frameworks, and practices: PCI DSS, ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR
✅ PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
✔️ One of offensive-security certifications: OSWE, OSEP, OSED, CRTO, BSCP, ARTE, GRTE
✔️ In-depth experience architecting secure services on Kubernetes and AWS.
✔️ Prior iGaming, fintech, or payments domain experience.
✔️ Public CVEs, advisories, write-ups, conference talks.
✔️ HTB Pro Lab completions, real CTF placements.
✔️ Open-source contributions to offensive or defensive tooling.
✅ We offer excellent benefits, including but not limited to:
🏖️ Up to 25 vacation days;
🤒 6 Undocumented Sick Leave Days;
💷 Monthly food vouchers (102 EUR);
🏥 Private Medical Insurance;
🏋🏼 Multisport Card;
🎁 Birthday, Wedding and Newborn gifts;
🍔 Breakfast, Friday lunches, fruits, and snacks in the office;
🎭 Monthly company activities and team-building events;
🚀 Career growth opportunities.
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We are a rapidly growing operational services company based in Sofia. Our team already counts more than 500 stars on board who create an amazingly friendly and warm company culture. Sofia Stars provides the best services available for companies across the globe. Our primary focus is R&D, Customer Support, KYC, Risk and Anti-Fraud solutions for highly loaded online businesses.