Principal Offensive Security Engineer

Alteryx·Remote, Oregon·Posted 6d ago·via Talent.com

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Job description

Job Description: - Lead risk-prioritized penetration testing and offensive security assessments across products, web applications, APIs, infrastructure, cloud, identity, SaaS, and enterprise technologies

  • Identify, validate, and safely exploit vulnerabilities and demonstrate realistic attack paths
  • Scope, design, and execute red-team campaigns and adversary simulations based on relevant threats, emerging techniques, and business risk
  • Develop and evaluate AI-assisted workflows for reconnaissance, campaign development, social engineering, tooling, and analysis
  • Develop custom scripts, tooling, payloads, and automation for offensive security engagements
  • Conduct offensive security and red-team assessments primarily across GCP and modern identity platforms, with AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes as relevant
  • Plan and execute purple-team exercises with SOC, Detection Engineering, Threat Hunting, and Incident Response teams
  • Validate telemetry, detections, investigation workflows, response capabilities, logging, monitoring, playbooks, and defensive controls
  • Partner with engineering and defensive teams to prioritize remediation, retest fixes, and verify improvements
  • Document findings, attack paths, business impact, and recommended remediation for technical and executive audiences
  • Own technical direction and execution of the offensive security roadmap
  • Mature testing methodologies and mentor offensive security practitioners through hands-on pairing
  • Measure program effectiveness through verified remediation, reduced exposure to critical attack paths, and repeatable validation of detection and response coverage

Requirements: - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent experience

  • 8+ years of relevant information security experience, including significant hands-on experience in penetration testing, red teaming, adversary simulation, or offensive security
  • Experience independently leading complex penetration tests or offensive security engagements
  • Deep hands-on expertise in application/API exploitation, cloud offensive security, identity, or enterprise environments
  • Practical working knowledge across offensive security domains and ability to chain weaknesses into realistic attack paths and assess business impact
  • Strong knowledge of attacker techniques across initial access, credential access, privilege escalation, persistence, lateral movement, defense evasion, and data access
  • Hands-on offensive security experience in at least one major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and modern identity environments
  • Experience with Active Directory, SAML, OAuth, OIDC, MFA, and SSO
  • Experience with modern offensive security tooling and frameworks across web, identity, network, and adversary-emulation testing
  • Ability to develop or modify offensive security tooling using Python, PowerShell, Bash, Go, or similar
  • Hands-on experience incorporating AI into offensive security or red-team operations, with concrete examples of workflows or tools developed or adapted, validation, and operational benefits
  • Experience planning or leading purple-team exercises and translating offensive findings into defensive improvements
  • Strong understanding of MITRE ATT&CK and ability to map offensive activity to adversary techniques and defensive coverage
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including communicating technical risk to engineering teams, security leadership, and executives
  • Experience mentoring offensive security engineers, setting technical direction, and influencing outcomes across engineering and security teams
  • Ability to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls
  • Preferred: contributions to the offensive security or AI security community
  • Preferred: experience building or maturing an internal red-team or offensive security program
  • Preferred: advanced adversary-emulation or assumed-breach exercises
  • Preferred: AI integrations using agent frameworks, LLM APIs, or local or hosted models
  • Preferred: assessing AI-enabled applications, LLM-integrated systems, or agentic workflows
  • Preferred: SaaS security, endpoint/EDR evasion, exploit development, or social engineering
  • Preferred: repeatable purple-team validation programs
  • Preferred: strong hands-on offensive security experience in GCP and Kubernetes assessment
  • Preferred: OSCP, OSEP, OSWE, OSED, CRTO, GXPN, or comparable certifications

Benefits: - Bonus or commission eligibility

  • Medical benefits
  • Retirement benefits
  • Financial benefits
  • Wellness benefits
  • Paid time off
  • Employee discounts
  • Diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace
  • Growth mindset support through all career stages

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