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Senior Offensive Security Engineer

Senior Offensive Security Engineer

CompanyUpstart
LocationAustin, TX, USA, San Mateo, CA, USA, Remote in USA, Columbus, OH, USA
Salary$157000 – $217000
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • 5+ years in Security, at least 2 of which are in Offensive Security
  • Experience scoping and coordinating offense security testing exercises
  • Experience in an Okta + MacOS environment
  • Experience with K8s and modern cloud stacks
  • Ability to build tools to recreate attacker behavior (python preferred)

Responsibilities

  • Validate assumptions and discover weaknesses in Upstart’s controls and systems
  • Partnering within security on control design, providing feedback from an attacker’s perspective
  • Run purple teaming exercises with our Detection and Response team to ensure detections would be effective in an attacker scenario
  • Stack rank systems to be tested and coordinate external resources and testing firms to perform testing across our systems
  • Program management for the Offensive Security program – defining goals, KPIs, and driving it towards success.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Internal Red team experience
  • AWS & EKS experience
  • Experience with testing CI/CD pipelines
  • Detection Engineering experience (for purple team collaboration)
  • System Administration experience (cloud native systems)