OSINT RECON Easy

The Digital Footprint

A small SaaS startup, Solace Dynamics, has been sharing more of itself online than it realizes. Work through four pieces of exposed evidence and reconstruct what's actually going on inside the company.

Your mission: examine each piece of evidence below and answer what it reveals about Solace Dynamics. Solving one exhibit unlocks the next.

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Exhibit 1: Job Posting
What internal tool does the listing name by mistake?

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Solace Dynamics
About
Life at Solace
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Careers  /  Engineering  /  Backend Engineer
Backend Engineer
Remote (US) • Engineering • Full-time • Posted 3 days ago
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Solace Dynamics builds workflow automation software for mid-market operations teams. We're a 42-person, fully-remote company backed by seed and Series A investors, and we're growing our platform team to keep up with customer demand.

About the role

We're looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Platform team. You'll work on the core services that power our automation engine, including our job scheduling system, integrations layer, and internal tooling. This is a high-ownership role, and you'll be shipping to production in your first week.

Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain backend services in Python and Go
  • Own features end-to-end, from design doc to production rollout
  • Improve reliability and observability of core platform services
  • Participate in an on-call rotation (roughly 1 week every 6)
  • Collaborate with product and design on new customer-facing features

Requirements

  • 4+ years of professional backend software engineering experience
  • Strong experience with distributed systems and relational databases
  • Comfortable working directly with customers during escalations
  • Solid understanding of CI/CD concepts and cloud infrastructure (we run on AWS)

Nice to have

  • Experience with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Temporal, or similar)
  • Some exposure to our internal deployment tooling, we use an in-house tool called ForgeDeploy to manage staging and production rollouts, so anyone who has touched a similar internal CD system will ramp up fast (don't worry if you haven't used it before, we'll get you set up during onboarding)
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
  • Prior experience at an early-stage SaaS startup

Benefits

  • Fully remote, flexible hours
  • Health, dental, and vision coverage
  • $1,500 annual learning & development stipend
  • Unlimited PTO (with a 3-week minimum we actually enforce)
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Look under "Nice to have," near the middle of the listing.

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Exhibit 2: Employee Post
What's written on the whiteboard in the background?

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JB
Jordan Blake
Software Engineer at Solace Dynamics
11h ·
3am and the migration finally shipped. Six weeks of on-and-off nights, one very patient team, and way too much coffee, but the old queue system is officially retired.

Whiteboard's a disaster but I'm leaving it exactly like this until tomorrow as a monument to tonight. Going to sleep for a week.
API
Queue
Worker
Project Indigo
✓ cutover DNS
✓ drain old queue
□ kill switch removed
★ migration retro fri
retry logic still flaky on node C
pizza @ 1am??
rollback plan: see doc (ping priya)
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Look at the largest thing written on the whiteboard, just under the diagram.

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Exhibit 3: Leaked Document
Who is listed as the document's author?

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Document Properties: Q3_Roadmap_DRAFT.pdf
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Description
Security
Fonts
Custom
File:
Q3_Roadmap_DRAFT.pdf
Title:
Q3 Product Roadmap (DRAFT, Internal)
Author:
Priya Nathan
Company:
Solace Dynamics
Subject:
Quarterly planning, engineering & product
Keywords:
roadmap, Q3, internal, draft, do not distribute
Created:
6/14/2026 9:42:18 AM
Modified:
6/29/2026 4:17:53 PM
Application:
DocSuite Writer 16.4
PDF Producer:
PrintPDF Distiller 3.1
PDF Version:
1.7
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It's one of the fields near the top of the Description tab.

Correct. Noted for the file.

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Exhibit 4: Subdomain Scan
Which subdomain shouldn't be exposed?

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recon@kbx01: ~/engagements/solace
$ subrecon -d solacedynamics.io --passive --resolve
[i] subrecon v2.4.1, passive sources: crt.sh, dns_bruteforce, cert_transparency
[i] querying 3 sources for solacedynamics.io ...
www.solacedynamics.io [crt.sh] [A]
mail.solacedynamics.io [dns] [MX]
api.solacedynamics.io [crt.sh] [A]
cdn.solacedynamics.io [dns] [CNAME]
status.solacedynamics.io [crt.sh] [A]
vpn.solacedynamics.io [dns] [A]
dev.solacedynamics.io [crt.sh] [A]
staging-uat.solacedynamics.io [crt.sh] [A]  (unexpected, not in scope doc)
[i] resolved 8/8 hosts
[+] found 8 subdomains in 4.2s
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One line is highlighted and flagged as unexpected. Type it exactly as shown.

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