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Offensive Security Engineer (Red Team)
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Role overview A red team engineer role embedded in a product security team, focused on offensive security across cloud environments. The work centers on adversary emulation, attack-path discovery, and partnering with detection engineering to validate how well the organization can spot and respond to real-world threats.
Responsibilities - Plan and execute red team operations, adversary simulations, and targeted security assessments focused on cloud environments. - Evaluate the security of cloud infrastructure, identity architectures, CI/CD pipelines, containerized workloads, and cloud-native services. - Identify and validate attack paths involving IAM misconfigurations, overprivileged roles, exposed secrets, metadata abuse, insecure automation, and weaknesses in cloud service configurations. - Test detection and response coverage by exercising logging, alerting, monitoring, and incident response processes in partnership with blue team and detection engineering functions. - Track emerging attacker techniques, cloud exploitation trends, and new abuse paths relevant to modern enterprise environments.
Requirements - 5+ years of experience in offensive security, red teaming, penetration testing, or detection validation. - Familiarity with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures, with the ability to map findings to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK. - Ability to write concise, actionable reports and communicate complex technical issues to a range of stakeholders. - Relevant industry certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, GXPN, GPEN, or recognized cloud security certifications.
Benefits and work setup - Compensation is based on factors such as education, work experience, and certifications; some roles include restricted stock units. - Benefits package including health, pharmacy, optical, and dental coverage, paid time off, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, and retirement plan contributions, subject to eligibility. - Equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace.