Hack The Box tech stack

Hack The Box builds mostly with Python, SQL, Go, Bash. Its stack also includes GCP, Kubernetes, Google BigQuery, Snowflake. Python is named in 8 of the 22 job postings Hack The Box published in the last 12 months (36%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Hack The Box, updated Sep 28, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Sep 28, 2026
Technologies in use
85
Postings analysed
22
Open now
17
Modernity
73 /100
New in 6 months
7

What programming languages does Hack The Box use?

Python is named in 36% of job postings at Hack The Box, followed by SQL (27%), Go (14%), Bash (5%).

Python 8 36% required in 100% · 5 open now · since May 2026
SQL 6 27% required in 100% · 4 open now · since May 2026
Go 3 14% required in 67% · 3 open now · since Jun 2026
Bash 1 5% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
Elixir 1 5% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
Erlang 1 5% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
PHP 1 5% required in 100% · 1 open now · since May 2026
PowerShell 1 5% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
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JavaScript1

What frameworks and libraries does Hack The Box use?

Flink is named in 18% of job postings at Hack The Box, followed by Dagster (14%), Ecto (5%), Laravel (5%).

Flink 4 18% required in 100% · 2 open now · since May 2026
Dagster 3 14% required in 100% · 2 open now · since May 2026
Ecto 1 5% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
Laravel 1 5% required in 100% · 1 open now · since May 2026
LiteLLM 1 5% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Aug 2026
Oban 1 5% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
Phoenix LiveView 1 5% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
Symfony 1 5% required in 100% · 1 open now · since May 2026
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Tailwind CSS1
Volatility1
Vue.js1

What databases does Hack The Box use?

Google BigQuery is named in 27% of job postings at Hack The Box, followed by Snowflake (23%), BigQuery (18%), ClickHouse (18%).

Google BigQuery 6 27% required in 100% · 3 open now · since May 2026
Snowflake 5 23% required in 100% · 2 open now · since May 2026
BigQuery 4 18% required in 100% · 3 open now · since May 2026
ClickHouse 4 18% required in 100% · 2 open now · since May 2026
Google Bigtable 4 18% required in 100% · 2 open now · since May 2026
Amazon Redshift 3 14% required in 100% · 2 open now · since May 2026
Druid 1 5% required in 100% · since Jun 2026
PostgreSQL 1 5% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026

What cloud and platforms does Hack The Box use?

GCP is named in 36% of job postings at Hack The Box, followed by Kubernetes (36%), Tableau (23%), Airflow (18%).

GCP 8 36% required in 100% · 6 open now · since May 2026
Kubernetes 8 36% required in 63% · 7 open now · since May 2026
Tableau 5 23% required in 100% · 2 open now · since May 2026
Airflow 4 18% required in 100% · 2 open now · since May 2026
Apache Kafka 4 18% required in 100% · 2 open now · since May 2026
Spark 4 18% required in 100% · 2 open now · since May 2026
Grafana 4 18% required in 75% · 4 open now · since Jun 2026
Linux 4 18% required in 75% · 4 open now · since Aug 2026
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Looker4
VMWare4
Vertex AI4
GitHub3
GitHub Actions3
Prefect3
AWS2
Azure2
Windows2
Active Directory1
Autopsy1
DLP1
Debian1
Metabase1
Okta1
SIEM1
Sentry1

What developer tools does Hack The Box use?

Docker is named in 27% of job postings at Hack The Box, followed by Terraform (27%), Rest API (18%), dbt (18%).

Docker 6 27% required in 83% · 5 open now · since May 2026
Terraform 6 27% required in 50% · 6 open now · since Jun 2026
Rest API 4 18% required in 100% · 3 open now · since May 2026
dbt 4 18% required in 100% · 3 open now · since May 2026
Prometheus 4 18% required in 75% · 4 open now · since Jun 2026
Ansible 4 18% required in 25% · 4 open now · since Aug 2026
Microsoft Excel 2 9% required in 50% · 1 open now · since Jun 2026
Git 1 5% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
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Loki1
Mimir1
PHPUnit1
Portkey1
Vault1
Wireshark1
Kong AI Gateway1
OpenStack1

What AI and ML technologies does Hack The Box use?

LLM is named in 14% of job postings at Hack The Box.

LLM 3 14% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Jun 2026

Which engineering practices does Hack The Box ask for?

AI Agents is named in 82% of job postings at Hack The Box, followed by CI/CD (27%), Feature Store (18%), Clean Architecture (14%).

AI Agents 18 82% required in 56% · 14 open now · since Apr 2026
CI/CD 6 27% required in 100% · 4 open now · since May 2026
Feature Store 4 18% required in 100% · 2 open now · since May 2026
Clean Architecture 3 14% required in 100% · 2 open now · since May 2026
Dimensional Modeling 3 14% required in 100% · 2 open now · since May 2026
ETL/ELT 3 14% required in 100% · 2 open now · since May 2026
Platform Engineering 2 9% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Aug 2026
VLAN 2 9% required in 50% · 2 open now · since Aug 2026
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BGP2
A/B Testing1
DNS1
FinOps1
Fine-tuning1
MVC1
OSPF1

What does each Hack The Box team work with?

The technologies each team's postings require most often, with the number of postings that require them.

DevOps

3 postings
Terraform3
Go2
Grafana2
Prometheus2
Python2

Product

3 postings
Linux2
Windows2

Data Science

3 postings
Airflow3
Amazon Redshift3
Apache Kafka3
ClickHouse3
Dagster3
Docker3

Analytics

3 postings
Google BigQuery3
Tableau3
BigQuery2
GCP2
LLM2
Looker2

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How is the Hack The Box stack changing?

Read from the dates of the postings themselves: a technology is new when the first posting that names it appeared in the last six months, rising or falling when its share of postings moved between the last two quarters.

First appeared
WindowsSep 2026
LinuxAug 2026
VMWareAug 2026
AnsibleAug 2026
Platform EngineeringAug 2026
VLANAug 2026
BGPAug 2026

How modern is the Hack The Box stack?

Modern AI adopter 73/100

Hack The Box scores 73 out of 100 (Modern). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 1; legacy ones: 0.

How common is the Hack The Box stack in its industry?

Share of the 3,301 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

GCP34%
Kubernetes36%
Python60%
Google BigQuery7%
SQL42%
Snowflake12%
Tableau10%
Airflow4%
Apache Kafka16%
BigQuery7%

What sets Hack The Box apart

Airflow4%
Flink3%
Google Bigtable0%
Vertex AI4%
Dagster3%
Prefect2%

Questions about the Hack The Box tech stack

What programming languages does Hack The Box use?

The languages named in Hack The Box job postings are Python (36%), SQL (27%), Go (14%), Bash (5%), Elixir (5%), as a share of the 22 postings of the last 12 months.

Does Hack The Box use Flink?

Yes. Flink is named in 4 of 22 job postings (18%) and required in 4 of them.

What cloud and platforms does Hack The Box use?

The cloud and platforms named in Hack The Box job postings are GCP (8), Kubernetes (8), Tableau (5) (postings in brackets).

What skills do you need for a DevOps job at Hack The Box?

DevOps postings at Hack The Box most often require Terraform (3), Go (2), Grafana (2), Prometheus (2), out of 3 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the Hack The Box tech stack changing?

Yes. Windows, Linux, VMWare, Ansible first appeared in Hack The Box job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the Hack The Box tech stack?

Hack The Box scores 73 out of 100 (Modern). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 1; legacy ones: 0.

How does Alion know the Hack The Box tech stack?

Alion reads every job posting Hack The Box publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 22 postings of the last 12 months and were updated on Sep 28, 2026.

Method and citation

Alion reads every job posting the company publishes and tags the technologies each one names. Shares count the postings of the last 12 months, open and closed; the company's own products are counted apart. How we count

Alion, "Hack The Box tech stack: 85 technologies from 22 job postings", as of Sep 28, 2026. https://alion.io/company/hackthebox/technologies

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