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Senior Staff Penetration Testing Engineer

Office - USA - CA - Headquarters💼 Full-time💰 $152,300–$152,300🗓 2026-09-16 → 2026-09-26

Core

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

Role type

Senior Staff Penetration Testing Engineer (Offensive Security)

Builds

Secure cloud-native applications, infrastructure, and network architectures against FedRAMP-mandated attack vectors.

Domain

Cybersecurity, Cloud Security, Offensive Security

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

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

Preferred skills

LLM-driven automation, Multi-tenant isolation testing, Assumed-breach operations, Mentorship

Technologies

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

Responsibilities

Conduct comprehensive penetration tests across cloud-native applications and infrastructure; Execute multi-tenant isolation testing and segmentation validation; Plan and lead assumed-breach red team operations; Integrate AI-assisted testing frameworks and LLM-driven automation; Provide expert-level security guidance to SRE and Engineering teams; Lead security assessment of internal tooling and third-party integrations; Research and develop custom tooling to automate testing; Translate technical findings into reports for stakeholders and leadership; Mentor junior team members.

Seniority

Senior Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities

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