Security Engineering Intern

About Buckeyewater Labs

Buckeyewater Labs is a small team of former military and law enforcement analysts doing pen tests and incident response. Certifications across the team include OSCP, GPEN and CISSP. Founded in 2002, we now have 13 employees.

Overview

Our Application Security team runs vulnerability scans, reviews cloud settings and handles phishing reports. The intern helps with all of it. Remote within Japan. The team meets in Tokyo once a quarter, travel covered. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short.

Responsibilities

• Run authenticated vulnerability scans with Nessus or OpenVAS on approved assets
• Review alerts in our SIEM (Wazuh or Splunk) and escalate anything suspicious
• Track open vulnerabilities in Jira and follow up with owners on fixes
• Update security policies and runbooks in Confluence
• Test our own web apps for OWASP Top 10 issues using Burp Suite, within the agreed scope
• Check AWS and Google Workspace settings against CIS benchmarks

Who can apply

• Eligible to work in Japan
• Based in Japan for the duration of the internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2028
• Comfortable on the Linux command line
• Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, IT, Cyber Security or a related field, graduating in 2028
• Basic knowledge of common web attacks such as XSS, SQL injection and CSRF
• Good understanding of networking basics: TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, ports and firewalls
• Hands-on practice through TryHackMe, Hack The Box or college labs

What you get out of it

• Mentoring from a security engineer with weekly check-ins
• Certificate and recommendation letter on completion
• Writing findings that engineers can fix without a long back-and-forth

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: ¥170,000 - ¥205,000/month

Perks

• Internet allowance
• Possibility of a full-time offer
• Online learning budget

Duration: 3 months. Start: Feb 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Buckeyewater Labs Co., Ltd..