Offensive Security Engineer

Summary

Join Praetorian, a cybersecurity firm focused on breach prevention, and become part of a team of elite engineers tackling complex security challenges. We utilize red teaming, attack simulations, and our Chariot platform to help organizations manage their attack surfaces. The ideal candidate will have a passion for offensive security and adversarial engineering, along with experience in areas such as product security testing, cloud security, and penetration testing. Praetorian offers competitive salaries, equity, learning opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We are seeking mission-driven professionals passionate about preventing breaches and pushing technical boundaries. If you thrive in a collaborative environment and are eager to make a real impact, apply today.

Requirements

• Demonstrated passion for Offensive Security and Adversarial Engineering
• Demonstrated passion and experience in any of the following
• Product Security Testing (Application, Mobile, LLM)
• Cloud Security (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Web Application Penetration Testing
• Internal/External Network Penetration Testing
• Red Team
• IoT Security (Embedded, Firmware, Wireless)
• Secure Code Review
• Reverse Engineering
• Vulnerability Research / Exploit Development
• Experience writing software or scripts using common offensive security languages such as Go (Golang), Python, PowerShell, or Bash
• Internships with cyber, startup, and/or high-tech companies
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or physics

Responsibilities

• Provide technical assistance on challenging security projects for our Professional Services and Managed Services customers
• Develop custom methodologies, payloads, exploits, and tools to ensure project success
• Develop new Chariot capabilities based upon security vulnerabilities identified in consulting security projects
• Learn as much as possible about the industry and the work we do

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrable contributions to vulnerability research, exploit development, and CVE assignments
• Familiarity with AI prompt engineering to support tool development, script generation, payload creation, and adversary emulation
• Capture-the-flag, CCDC, CPTC or other security related competitions
• Notable achievements on testing platforms such as Hack the Box, TryHackMe, Portswigger and similar
• Verifiable 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, CPTS, OSWE, OSCE, OSEP, OSED, CRTO, cloud certifications and similar
• Fanatical passion for cybersecurity and the challenges it presents
• Customer centric focus with an obsessive need to wow and delight each client
• Ability to maintain high levels of output and work ethic
• Personable individual who enjoys working in a team-oriented environment
• Self-starter and independent learner that is able to spin up quickly

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity Incentive Plan, offering ownership stakes in the company
• Continuous learning opportunities through our internal Learning & Development (L&D) program
• Comprehensive health and dental insurance coverage
• Immediate 401(k) matching
• Paid maternity and paternity leave