Senior Staff Security Engineer, Red Team
$175,000–$225,000 year
Remote · United States
Job Summary
Lead offensive security and adversary simulations as Staff level Red Team engineer across cloud, infrastructure, identity, endpoints, and applications. Plan and execute red team operations; perform penetration testing; develop tooling; apply AI-assisted techniques; collaborate with Detection & Response and Security Engineering to validate and improve detection; drive security improvements. Communicate findings clearly, document risk and remediation, and influence security strategy. Requires 8+ years of red teaming/penetration testing and strong knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK; experience with Cobalt Strike, Burp Suite, Metasploit; cloud experience; staff-level leadership.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in red teaming, offensive security, or penetration testing
- Proven experience conducting adversary simulation and complex attack chains
- Strong expertise across network, application, cloud, and identity security
- Deep understanding of the MITRE ATT&CK framework and attacker methodologies
- Hands-on experience with offensive tools and frameworks such as Cobalt Strike, Burp Suite, and Metasploit
- Experience working in cloud environments and modern infrastructure
- Ability to develop custom tools or automation for offensive security work
- Ability to operate at Staff level, including leading engagements, defining strategy, and influencing security improvements
- Nice to have: experience in AI infrastructure or distributed systems environments
- Nice to have: familiarity with identity-based attacks, Kubernetes, containers, GPU-based infrastructure, purple teaming, detection engineering collaboration, or AI/ML system security testing
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