Hack The Box
hackthebox.com
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IT Training & Certification
Skill Assessment
Corporate Training
Penetration Testing
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$57.2M
1 round on record
Latest round
$57.2M
Venture round · Jan 2023 · 3 yr ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
21
+6 posted in 30 days
Backers
4
Endeavor, Brighteye Ventures
The money's age
Long since its last round
45 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
21/100
hiring for its size, a new city
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jan 13, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $57.2M
Jul 5, 2022
On the Hacker News front page HackTheBox: A Hacking Playground · 117 points
2017
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.02%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
6
best: 117 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Jan 2023 | $57.2M | — | uktech.news |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Endeavor 
Brighteye Ventures 
Marathon Venture Capital 
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How Hack The Box hires
Truth index
A 93/100
Median time to fill
70 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
7%
Reposted roles
0%
Hack The Box scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 15 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 7% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 70 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Hack The Box is a cybersecurity training company founded in 2017 that runs an online platform of hands-on hacking labs, capture the flag competitions and certifications. Individuals, universities, governments and corporate security teams use it to train and assess offensive and defensive skills, and its business products cover team upskilling, cyber ranges and talent assessment. Most of its staff work in Athens, Greece. The company is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.
News
AI reshapes cybersecurity workforce priorities as IT teams brace for new risks
Research from two groups shows that enterprises are accelerating their AI security training and workforce development amid concerns over prompt injection, agentic AI, and AI-powered social engineering tasks.
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Using continuous purple teaming to protect fast-paced enterprise environments
As software development accelerates and enterprise environments evolve more quickly, security testing must also become continuous.
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IT Brew May 14, 2026 How a marketing professional changed course for cybersecurity Read more
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How AI Is Reshaping Cybersecurity Skills
Hack The Box CEO Haris Pylarinos explains how AI is reshaping cybersecurity skills, training and human oversight of security agents.
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AI will redefne entry-level cyber-security jobs
If AI absorbs the tasks that have been traditionally training new cyber-security professionals, how do we develop the next generation of expert talent?
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Closing the Cyber Readiness Gap: Why CIOs Must Deliver Board-Level Proof of Resilience
CIOs today are judged on far more than uptime and delivery timelines. They are accountable for business continuity, enterprise risk, and organizational trust.
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Confidence in AI-powered cyber must be earned, not assumed Computer Weekly Mar 11, 2026 Read more
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Security teams with AI agents and humans are most effective: Hack The Box MSSP Alert Mar 11, 2026 Read more
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Hack The Box Report Shows AI-Augmented Cybersecurity Teams Achieve Up to 4.1x Productivity Gains While Highlighting Emerging Talent Pipeline Risks
Hack The Box report highlights emerging talent pipeline risks as AI boosts cybersecurity productivity,warning automation may limit real-world skill development.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Hack The Box over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
86
Postings analysed
25
Stack modernity
73/100AI adopter
Languages
Python32%
SQL24%
Go12%
Bash4%
Frameworks & libraries
Flink16%
Dagster12%
Ecto4%
Laravel4%
Databases
Google BigQuery24%
Snowflake20%
BigQuery16%
ClickHouse16%
Cloud & platforms
GCP32%
Kubernetes32%
Tableau20%
Airflow16%
AI & ML
LLM12%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$165k
Typical range
$160k – $170k
Open positions
2
1
Jobs
Senior
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 1 | $160k | $160k |
Highest paying role
Finance Manager
$170k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
76/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
20
5 opened / 6 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
65 days
faster than 20% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Marketing
25% ▲
DevOps
13% ▼
Product
13% ▲
Customer Success
13% ▼
Data Science
6% ▼
Backend
6% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: Atlanta
Oct 2026
New location: Lisbon
Oct 2026
New location: Barcelona
Oct 2026
New location: Warsaw
Oct 2026
New location: United Kingdom
Oct 2026
Added Red Teaming to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Greece
Sep 2026
Added Git to stack
Sep 2026
Added Tailwind CSS to stack
Sep 2026
Added Sentry to stack
Sep 2026
Added PostgreSQL to stack
Sep 2026
Added Phoenix LiveView to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
8
Hiring now
8
Countries
7
Busiest office
London
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London
United Kingdom
HQ
6 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 17% engineering 33% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Marketing, Data Science, Product
Palaio Faliro
Greece
Engineering / R&D
4 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for DevOps, Networking, Analytics
Athens
Greece
Sales office
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 33% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Product, Marketing, Customer Success
Berlin
Germany
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 67% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Data Science, Backend, Product
New York
United States
Remote hub
US Office
3 open roles 33% engineering 100% remote 10-50 est. staff $165k Avg Salary
hires for Data Science, Finance, Sales
New York, NY 10019
Warsaw
Poland
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 67% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Data Science, Backend, Product
Barcelona
Spain
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Product
Lisbon
Portugal
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Product
Jobs
≈ $71k – $162k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • United Kingdom
AI Agents
Red Teaming
DevOps
Windows
Apply
≈ $20k – $54k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Palaio Faliro
SQL
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
dbt
AI Agents
DevOps
GCP
Git
Analytics
Tableau
Looker
Apply
≈ $27k – $81k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Greece
Erlang
Elixir
Phoenix LiveView
Ecto
Oban
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
Tailwind CSS
DevOps
Rest API
GCP
Prometheus
CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
Cybersecurity
Least Privilege
OWASP
QA
Sentry
Apply
≈ $35k – $78k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United Kingdom, Greece) • Full-Time
AI Agents
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
VMWare
Linux
Windows
Cybersecurity
Wireshark
Volatility
Autopsy
SIEM
Apply
≈ $86k – $142k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United Kingdom, Greece)
Python
PowerShell
Bash
AI Agents
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
GCP
VMWare
Azure
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Linux
Windows
DNS
Cybersecurity
Active Directory
Apply
≈ $28k – $69k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Palaio Faliro
Go
AI Agents
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
VMWare
Prometheus
Kubernetes
Grafana
Linux
VLAN
BGP
OSPF
Apply
≈ $27k – $75k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Palaio Faliro
Python
AI Agents
LiteLLM
Portkey
LLM
Kong AI Gateway
DevOps
Terraform
Platform Engineering
GitHub
Cybersecurity
Okta
ISO 27001
SOC 2
DLP
Cryptography
Vault
Management
Slack
Confluence
Notion
Jira
Google Workspace
Gmail
Apply
≈ $27k – $74k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Palaio Faliro
Go
AI Agents
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
VMWare
Debian
Prometheus
Kubernetes
Grafana
Platform Engineering
OpenStack
Linux
VLAN
BGP
Apply
$140k – $160k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • New York
Python
SQL
Snowflake
ClickHouse
Apache Kafka
Google BigQuery
Amazon Redshift
Google Bigtable
BigQuery
AI/ML
Spark
Airflow
Dagster
Vertex AI
dbt
Prefect
Flink
Feature Store
Mobile
Clean Architecture
DevOps
Rest API
GCP
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Dimensional Modeling
Apply
Remote (Greece) • Full-Time
Python
Go
Terraform
GCP
Loki
Prometheus
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Grafana
Mimir
Apply
≈ $25k – $73k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Berlin • Warsaw
JavaScript
PHP
SQL
Laravel
Symfony
PHPUnit
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
Vue.js
Mobile
MVC
DevOps
Docker
GitHub
Apply
≈ $27k – $71k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Berlin • London • Warsaw
Python
SQL
Snowflake
ClickHouse
Apache Kafka
Google BigQuery
Amazon Redshift
Google Bigtable
BigQuery
AI/ML
Spark
Airflow
Dagster
Vertex AI
dbt
Prefect
Flink
Feature Store
Mobile
Clean Architecture
DevOps
Rest API
GCP
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Dimensional Modeling
Apply
Financials
Total raised
$57.2M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2023 | $57.2M | Details |