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Senior Staff Penetration Testing Engineer

Office - USA - CA - HeadquartersFull-time$152k–$246k2026-09-16 → 2026-11-11
Hybrid · United StatesNo visa sponsorship

Core

Conduct comprehensive penetration tests, red team operations, and security assessments for cloud-native applications, large-scale infrastructure, and complex network architectures, integrating AI-assisted testing frameworks.

Role type

Senior Staff Penetration Testing Engineer (Red Team)

Builds

Security posture validation for cloud services, container orchestration platforms, and automated deployment pipelines

Domain

Cybersecurity / Cloud Security / Offensive Security

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Penetration testing, Red teaming, Cloud security, Container security, Vulnerability exploitation, AI-assisted testing, Security architecture review, Tool development, Technical reporting, Mentoring

Preferred skills

FedRAMP compliance knowledge, LLM-driven automation experience

Technologies

Cloud-native platforms, Container orchestration, Automated deployment pipelines, AI/LLM frameworks

Responsibilities

Conduct comprehensive penetration tests across cloud-native applications and complex network architectures; Execute multi-tenant isolation testing and segmentation validation; Plan and lead assumed-breach red team operations including lateral movement and privilege escalation; Integrate AI-assisted testing frameworks and LLM-driven automation into workflows; Provide expert-level security guidance to SRE and Engineering teams; Research and develop custom tooling to automate testing; Translate complex technical findings into high-impact reports for technical and executive stakeholders; Mentor junior team members.

Seniority

Senior Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities