Senior Principal - Red Team Engineer
- Market p25–p75
- $203k–$279k
- Jobgether p25–p75
- $190k–$285kn=5
- Opened · 30d
- +2,855
- Closed · 30d
- −2,667
- Opened · 7d
- +1345% of open
- All software engineering
- 75,033open
Accountabilities:
- Lead Red Team operations: Plan and execute complex, full-scope adversary emulation campaigns across enterprise environments, applying advanced offensive security methodologies and disciplined operational practices to assess organizational security resilience.
- Drive Purple Team engagements: Collaborate with defensive security and detection engineering teams to validate security controls, evaluate detection coverage, identify defensive gaps, and translate offensive testing results into actionable security improvements.
- Own end-to-end security engagements: Manage the technical lifecycle of Red Team and Purple Team projects, including engagement scoping, test planning, execution, remediation verification, and the delivery of comprehensive technical reports.
- Conduct advanced security research: Investigate emerging vulnerabilities, attack techniques, exploitation methods, and security weaknesses across enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, and application environments.
- Develop custom offensive security tools: Design, build, and maintain specialized tooling to improve testing capabilities, automate security research, and advance the team's technical effectiveness.
- Leverage AI for cybersecurity operations: Build and operate AI-powered orchestration frameworks, automation layers, and tools around large language models (LLMs) and agentic systems to support activities such as reconnaissance, security research, vulnerability discovery, and engagement reporting.
- Assess cloud and enterprise environments: Evaluate security weaknesses across cloud infrastructure, identity systems, networking, storage, serverless environments, infrastructure-as-code, and common operating systems.
- Evaluate security controls and defenses: Assess the effectiveness of network and endpoint security technologies, including web application firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and endpoint detection and response solutions.
- Produce high-quality technical deliverables: Create detailed security assessment reports, proof-of-concept documentation where appropriate, remediation verification summaries, and recommendations that support measurable risk reduction.
- Drive continuous security improvement: Contribute to stronger detection and response capabilities, reduce recurring security issues, and improve the overall effectiveness of enterprise cybersecurity programs.
Requirements
- Education and professional experience: Master's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience. At least 9 years of cybersecurity experience, with substantial specialization in offensive security.
- Advanced offensive security expertise: Demonstrated hands-on proficiency in at least three of the following technical domains, with Red Team Operations or Red Team Development being mandatory:
- Red Team Operations.
- Red Team Development, including offensive tooling and security research.
- Exploit development and vulnerability discovery, including zero-day research.
- Reverse engineering.
- Detection engineering.
- Penetration testing.
- AI-enabled offensive security.
- Red Team and Purple Team experience: Proven ability to plan, lead, and execute sophisticated security engagements, demonstrating strong technical judgment, operational discipline, and the ability to translate findings into meaningful defensive improvements.
- Cloud security expertise: Practical experience assessing cloud workloads and configurations across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including identity and access management, networking, storage, serverless services, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Operating system and platform knowledge: Strong technical familiarity with Linux and Windows server and client environments. Experience with macOS is considered an advantage.
- Programming and automation: Strong development skills in Python, Go, Rust, C/C++, or equivalent programming languages, with the ability to build custom security tools, automate testing, and investigate emerging attack techniques.
How Jobgether works
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