Principal Offensive Security Engineer
RegionUSA
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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