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Senior Principal - Red Team Engineer

All, Texas, United States of AmericaRemoteFull-time$160k–$325k2026-11-09 → 2026-11-10
Remote

Core

Senior Principal Red Team Engineer leading advanced offensive cybersecurity engagements, planning and executing complex Red Team and Purple Team operations to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in enterprise and cloud environments.

Role type

Senior Principal Red Team Engineer (Offensive Security)

Builds

High-fidelity technical reports with PoCs, remediation verification summaries, custom offensive tooling, and AI harnesses for cybersecurity operations.

Domain

Cybersecurity / Offensive Security / Cloud Security

Required skills

Red Team Operations, Red Team Development, Exploit Development, Reverse Engineering, Detection Engineering, Penetration Testing, Cloud exploitation (AWS/Azure/GCP), Server & client platform exploitation (Linux/Windows), Programming & automation (Python/Go/Rust/C++), Infrastructure & evasion techniques.

Preferred skills

OSCP/OSCE/GPEN/GWAPT/CRTP/OSWE certifications, CI/CD and developer pipelines security, Threat emulation frameworks (MITRE ATT&CK, OWASP).

Technologies

Python, Go, Rust, C/C++, AWS, Azure, GCP, Linux, Windows, macOS, WAF, IDS/IPS, EDR, GitHub/GitLab runners, IaC scanning.

Responsibilities

Plan and execute full-scope adversary emulation campaigns across enterprise environments; Partner with defensive teams to validate controls and improve detection coverage; Conduct offensive security research and develop custom tooling; Build and operate AI harnesses and orchestration layers around LLMs and agentic systems.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC