Lead Offensive Security Engineer

Summary

Join Praetorian, a cybersecurity company, and work alongside top minds in the industry. You will contribute to challenging offensive security projects for diverse clients, ranging from cryptocurrency exchanges to space telescopes. This role involves identifying vulnerabilities, developing exploits and tools, creating mitigation strategies, and reporting findings. You'll collaborate with the security community and mentor other engineers. Praetorian offers competitive benefits, including equity, learning opportunities, and comprehensive health insurance.

Requirements

• Demonstrated passion for offensive security and adversarial engineering
• 5+ years of experience in one or more of the following offsec domains: software, hardware, network, or cloud penetration testing
• Familiarity with exploit development beyond Windows and for MacOS X or Linux environments
• Familiarity with command and control channel frameworks and deployment
• Familiarity with cloud technology and deployments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Familiarity with reverse engineering malware, data obfuscators, or ciphers
• Ability to write technical reports and present technical findings both internally and externally
• Bachelors degree in computer science, computer engineering, mathematics, or physics

Responsibilities

• Provide technical execution on challenging offensive security projects for our customers
• Identify nuanced vulnerabilities in advanced systems
• Develop custom methodologies, payloads, exploits, and tools to ensure project success
• Develop documentation for novel mitigation strategies to emerging or undocumented security risks identified in client environments
• Develop comprehensive reports and presentations for our customers
• Serve as a mentor to other engineers in their technical and professional development
• Collaborate with the security community to develop novel attack techniques, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) through Praetorian’s Security Blog and other forms of community engagement

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior security consulting experience
• Software development experience in core offsec languages such as golang or python
• Capture-the-flag, CCDC, CPTC or other security related competitions
• Ranked achievements on testing platforms such as Hack the Box, Tryhackme, Portswigger and similar
• Track record in vulnerability research, exploit development, and CVE assignments
• Demonstrated open source contribution with git commits to popular offsec projects
• Security community experience via presentations, conference attendance, blogs, white papers and similar
• PNPT, BSCP, OSCP, OSWE, OSCE, OSEP, OSED, CRTO, cloud certifications and similar
• Experience with startup and/or high-tech companies

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity Incentive Plan, offering ownership stakes in the company
• Continuous learning opportunities through our internal Learning & Development (L&D) program, including training, certifications, and conferences to support your career growth
• Recognition and rewards for speaking engagements at industry events and conferences
• Comprehensive health and dental insurance coverage
• Immediate 401(k) matching
• Paid maternity and paternity leave