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Aqua Security

Aqua Security

People & HR
Boston, MA, USA
Posted on Oct 7, 2025

Contract Recruiter

  • HR & Ops
  • Boston, MA US
  • Full Time

Description

Aqua Security is looking for a Contract Recruiter to join our growing team. If you thrive in an environment that values teamwork, creativity, and quality results, while having fun in the process – Aqua is the place for you! Our team is nimble, impactful, and creative. We are committed to providing first-class experience for both candidates and hiring managers. You will act as a true partner for all things related to talent, recruiting, and hiring.

This is a 6-month contract with potential opportunity to extend. This is a hybrid position reporting into our US Headquarters in Burlington, MA 2 days per week.

  • Own the full cycle recruiting process to include initial sourcing through offer stage
  • Strong focus on developing pipelines of passive candidates through networking, cold calling, complex internet searches and research
  • Be an advocate for both hiring managers and candidates throughout the hiring process, establishing regular touch points and providing diligent follow through
  • Maintain accurate and well-organized documentation on all candidates within the organization's applicant tracking system (Sparkhire)
  • Foster an environment of knowledge sharing, collaboration, and continued learning where ideas for improvement are championed and continually explored

Requirements

  • Must have experience in a full-cycle corporate recruitment role at a high growth technology company
  • Must have a passion for technology and proven success recruiting for a variety of roles: Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success and others
  • Out-of-the-box thinker with creative prospecting skills
  • Strong work ethic, initiative, sense of urgency, proactive, with ability to work collaboratively within the global HR team
  • Independent worker, a self-starter, detail oriented, team player, analytical and have ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously
  • Organized with superior time management skills
  • Excellent written & verbal communication
  • BS degree

Aqua Security is the pioneer in cloud native security. Founded in 2015, Aqua Security is a global late-stage scale-up and the largest pure play cloud native vendor. Aqua helps enterprises see and stop threats across every phase of the software development lifecycle, from dev to cloud and back.

Why we’re unique:

  • Total of $265M in VC funding, with a valuation of $1B+ and TAM of $25-30B
  • More than 500 enterprise customers around the globe, across 40 countries including 40% of the Fortune 100
  • Strategic partnerships with the major cloud native platform providers and public cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM)
  • The most loved cloud native open-source tools with the world’s largest open-source community tool for vulnerability scanning, Trivy
  • The world’s leading dedicated cloud native threat research team, Aqua Nautilus

If you’re ready for an exciting opportunity to dive into the hottest cybersecurity category, now is the perfect time to join Aqua! While we are a global organization of 500+ employees, every Aquarian can still make a difference and make a big impact. Aqua also offers great company culture, amazing colleagues, international travel, and lots more!