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Engineering and security work for software companies
Software companies buy two things from us: engineers who can work in their codebase without a long ramp, and independent security testing their own team cannot do for itself.
What makes this sector different
Multi-tenancy is where the serious security risk lives. In a shared-tenant product, the worst flaws let one customer reach another customer’s data. Our application and API testing concentrates on object-level and function-level authorization, tenant isolation and business logic, because scanners rarely find those.
Enterprise customers ask for evidence. A penetration test report, a SOC 2 readiness plan, a security questionnaire answered with facts. We do the technical work behind those and tell you plainly where a gap needs engineering rather than wording.
Engineering capacity is often the constraint rather than direction. We place engineers who can work inside your process: your repository, your review standards, your deployment pipeline. For a defined piece of work, we can also take a workstream under a statement of work.
Where the work usually is
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Tenant isolation
Authorization checked in the user interface or in one service but not consistently at the data layer.
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API inventory
Endpoints that exist but are not documented, including older versions still in service.
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Security questionnaires
Enterprise deals held up by questions the team cannot answer with evidence.
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Pipeline and environment drift
Environments configured by hand, so what is tested is not what ships.
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AI features shipped quickly
Agents with broad tool permissions and no authorization checks outside the model.
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Hiring senior engineers
Long searches for specific skills, with a product deadline that will not move.
Systems and platforms we work in
Platform names describe where our consultants have worked. They do not imply a vendor partnership or certification.
How we help
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API penetration testing
Authorization, tenant isolation, business flows and resource consumption, tested by hand.
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Application security testing
Authenticated, role-based testing of the product your customers use.
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SOC 2 readiness
Gap assessment, control design and the engineering work behind the evidence.
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Platform engineering
Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, pipelines and environments that match production.
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Product engineering
Engineers in your process, or a workstream under a statement of work.
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AI security review
Tool permissions, authorization outside the model, injection paths and logging.
Regulatory and contractual context
- SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria are the usual contractual expectation for enterprise software buyers.
- State privacy laws give consumers rights that your product has to support, including deletion and access.
- GDPR applies where you process data of people in the European Union, affecting data location and subprocessors.
- Accessibility requirements apply to public and customer-facing interfaces; WCAG 2.2 AA is the usual target.
- Customer contracts often require a current penetration test and a defined vulnerability remediation window.
- Where you handle card or health data on behalf of customers, PCI DSS or HIPAA duties can reach your systems.
Roles we recruit for this sector
Contract, contract-to-hire and direct hire. We do not sponsor visas: candidates must already be authorized to work in the United States.
Illustrative engagement
Illustrative scenario. Not a real client engagement. No outcomes are claimed.
A B2B SaaS company is asked by a prospective enterprise customer for an independent test of tenant isolation before signing.
- Starting point
- A multi-tenant REST API, four user roles, automated scanning in the pipeline and no external test.
- Scope
- Authenticated API testing with two accounts per tenant and all four roles, focused on object-level and function-level authorization, tenant isolation and business flows, with a retest after fixes.
- Team
- Two testers and a lead, working in a staging environment with production-like data that contains no real customer records.
- Deliverables
- An executive summary, findings with reproduction steps and evidence, a prioritized remediation list, a debrief with the engineering team and a retest report.
- What is not claimed
- An illustration of a typical scope. Not a client engagement, and no findings are implied.
Questions people ask
Can we give the test report to our customers?
Yes. Reports are written so that an executive summary can be shared, and we can produce a summary letter where the full report is too detailed to circulate.
Will your engineers work in our repository and process?
Yes. That is the normal arrangement for staff augmentation: your repository, your review standards, your pipeline. For a defined deliverable we can instead work under a statement of work and own the outcome.
Do you test AI features?
Yes. We test the tools and permissions behind the feature, not only the chat interface, and we report reproducible behavior rather than anecdotes.
Can you help with a security questionnaire?
We can do the technical work behind the answers and point out where a gap needs an engineering fix rather than a better sentence. The answers themselves stay yours.
Related
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API penetration testing
Testing REST, GraphQL and internal APIs for broken authorization, tenant isolation failures, token weaknesses and business-logic abuse.
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SOC 2 readiness
Prepare for a SOC 2 examination: scope, control design, evidence collection, gap remediation and a mock walkthrough.
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Software engineering
Custom applications, APIs, modernization, quality engineering and support, delivered by teams or placed as specialists.
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DevOps and platform engineering
CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, GitOps, observability and internal platforms that help engineering teams ship safely.
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