Remote Position
[Remote] Remote | Cyber Security Engineer — $30–$100/hour
🌍 Remote · Turkey
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 24-MAG LLC is offering an independent contractor opportunity for Cyber Security Engineers to contribute to an advanced AI training and software-evaluation project. The role involves assessing and improving codebases through vulnerability remediation, security reviews, debugging, backend development, refactoring, and performance optimization.
Responsibilities
- Identify vulnerabilities and security weaknesses across diverse software systems
- Perform penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, and security-focused code review
- Evaluate application behaviour for exploitable or unsafe implementation patterns
- Recommend practical remediation approaches for identified risks
- Apply professional cybersecurity judgement across varied technical scenarios
- Analyse and resolve complex software bugs and technical defects
- Identify root causes across unfamiliar or evolving codebases
- Fix issues while preserving expected system behaviour
- Validate changes through appropriate testing and technical review
- Document debugging approaches and technical findings clearly
- Implement new features and enhance existing functionality
- Work across Python 3, Java, Rust, Go, C++, TypeScript, or comparable languages
- Contribute to backend services and production-quality software systems
- Apply strong algorithms, data structures, and engineering principles
- Design solutions with scalability, maintainability, and security in mind
- Refactor legacy code to improve maintainability, reliability, and security
- Identify software-performance bottlenecks and inefficient implementation patterns
- Optimise applications for scalability and operational performance
- Apply secure software-development lifecycle principles where relevant
- Balance technical performance with code quality and long-term maintainability
- Conduct codebase audits and document significant security findings
- Provide clear recommendations for technical and security improvements
- Communicate complex risks and engineering trade-offs concisely
- Contribute real-world technical insights to AI training and evaluation datasets
- Support consistent quality standards across security and software-engineering tasks
Skills
- Strong professional experience in cybersecurity, backend engineering, or secure software development
- Expertise in one or more of Python 3, Java, Rust, Go, C++, or TypeScript
- Proven experience debugging and resolving complex software issues
- Strong background in penetration testing, security auditing, and vulnerability assessment
- Experience reviewing code for security weaknesses and implementation risks
- Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, and core computer-science concepts
- Experience refactoring mature or large-scale codebases
- Strong performance-optimisation and backend-development skills
- Familiarity with secure software-development lifecycles
- Good understanding of modern threat landscapes and common security risks
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
- Excellent technical communication and documentation skills
- Experience with AI-related or data-driven projects is advantageous
Benefits
- Fully remote
- Flexible schedule; contributors may choose their working hours and days, including weekends
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