Senior Staff Engineer, Offensive Security (REMOTE)

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Overview Senior Staff Engineer, Offensive Security (REMOTE) As a Senior Staff Engineer of Offensive Security, you'll be at the forefront of our cybersecurity strategy for penetration testing, advanced attack simulations, and enabling organization to prevent, detect, and respond to cyber threats. Your role is pivotal in shaping our security posture, collaborating closely with senior leadership to influence risk decisions and ensure regulatory readiness. We seek a hands-on engineer with deep technical expertise in penetration testing, real-world adversary tactics, and risk frameworks, capable of driving measurable improvements in our cyber resilience. Candidates are expected to have hands-on penetration testing experience while leading the team to perform overall offensive security functions including red and purple teaming. The ideal candidate must possess a highly technical skillset and the ability to collaborate with stakeholders across the company to integrate penetration testing and other offensive security functions within company processes. In this high-stakes environment, you\'ll ensure implementation of industry best practices and execution of offensive security functions while meeting regulatory compliance requirements. This role offers a unique opportunity to expand your influence, forge critical alliances, and lead the evolution of offensive security in a fast-paced environment. Responsibilities Strategic and tactical leadership for highly effective penetration testing, simulating real-world cyber-attacks (red teaming), and collaborating with defensive security teams (purple teaming). Conduct tactical security penetration test assessments to validate the security of company applications (web, mobile, APIs, and AI products) against OWASP Top 10 threats and work with the Application Security team to provide feedback and recommendations to increase automated capabilities. Design and execute advanced threat emulation scenarios, including physical, social, and digital attack vectors. Ensure penetration testing activities are meeting security, business, and compliance objectives and outcomes. Guide the team on risk assessment, prioritization, reporting, and remediation of vulnerabilities through automation. Collaborate with Blue Teams, Threat Intelligence, and Risk Management to ensure comprehensive attack coverage and feedback loops. Ensure operations align with industry regulations and compliance standards such as NIST, PCI DSS, and NYDFS. Champion continuous improvement and innovation in penetration testing, adversary simulation techniques, tools, and methodologies. Represent the Offensive Security functions in senior leadership and audit discussions as a subject matter expert. Offer technical leadership for 3rd party penetration testing programs by setting a high bar and overseeing vendor testing activities. Required Qualifications Mastery of vulnerability discovery and exploitation across applications, networks, and cloud using tools (e.g., Burp Suite, Metasploit), and custom scripts (Python, PowerShell). Advanced understanding of OWASP, MITRE ATT&CK framework, software development lifecycle (SDLC), threat modeling, red/purple teaming, and attack path development. Hands-on experience with tools like Cobalt Strike, Mythic, BloodHound, and AutoSploit. Relevant professional security certifications (e.g. from GIAC or others). Proven experience in achieving results efficiently through automation and establishing best practices. Proven track record to deliver business outcomes for meeting regulatory and compliance obligations. Ability to force multiply through coaching and mentorship to offensive security engineers across all functions (penetration testing, red teaming, purple teaming). Preferred Qualifications OSCP, OSCE, CRTO, CISSP, or relevant Red Team/offensive security certs. GIAC Penetration Testing, Red Team certifications (GCTI, GPEN, GXPN) a plus. Breadth and depth of knowledge in security of operating systems, networking and protocols, firewalls, databases and middleware applications, forensics, scripting and programming. Advanced level knowledge of Linux/Mac/Windows operating systems, AWS/Azure cloud environments and cloud-native resources (ex. Containers, Kubernetes, microservices, serverless functions) Experience with conducting reverse engineering on mobile applications, including applications with anti-emulator and obfuscation protections. Required Experience 10+ years in engineering focused role, preferably in the tech industry. 8+ years of experience in offensive security (penetrating testing, red team, and purple team). 5+ years of hands-on experience performing penetration-testing, red teaming, and purple teaming activities. 4+ years of experience with Azure, AWS, GCP or other cloud providers. Senior role influencing company direction on security. Experience applying security controls to exceed third party attestation requirements (PCI, NYDFS, SOX …). Education Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science or a related field Annual Salary $120,000.00 - $260,000.00 The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.
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Location:
Denver, CO, United States
Salary:
$200,000 - $250,000
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Engineering

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