Offensive Security Engineer

Posted 17 Days Ago
2 Locations
Remote
3-5 Years Experience
Cybersecurity
The Role
Provide technical assistance on security projects, develop custom methodologies, and learn about the industry. Passion for offensive security and adversarial engineering. Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or physics preferred. Software development experience in Golang or Python desired. Competitive salary and benefits offered.
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Company Overview:

At Praetorian, we are bringing together the world's brightest minds in pursuit of solving the cybersecurity problem by reducing the friction of security and enabling the next wave of technological innovation. From projects that range from cryptocurrency exchanges to autonomous vehicles and from medical device platforms to space telescopes, we apply expertise and engineering to help secure our customers.

Explore our exciting New Hire Survival Guide to dive into Praetorian's mission, vision, values, and culture! Discover our competitive benefits and perks we offer.

Career Opportunity:

  • Join an industry with massive socio, economic, and political importance in the 21st century
  • Work alongside some of the best and the brightest minds in the security industry
  • Work with prominent clients and help them solve hard security problems
  • Leave an indelible mark on a company where individual input has real impact
  • Align your career trajectory with a hyper-growth company that is on the move

Core Responsibilities:

  • Provide technical assistance on challenging security projects for our customers
  • Develop custom methodologies, payloads, exploits, and tools to ensure project success
  • Learn as much as possible about the industry and the work we do

Desired Qualifications:

  • Demonstrated passion for offensive security and adversarial engineering
  • Internships with cyber, startup and/or high-tech companies
  • Bachelors degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or physics

+1 Qualifications:

  • 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

Desired Behaviors:

  • 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

Compensation & 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

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire. 

We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Praetorian.  We are an equal opportunity employer.  We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status.

Top Skills

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Python
The Company
HQ: Austin, TX
124 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2010

What We Do

As a collective of highly technical engineers and developers offering deep security expertise, Praetorian solves the toughest challenges faced by today’s leading organizations across an ever-evolving digital threat landscape. Our solutions enable clients to find, fix, stop, and ultimately solve cybersecurity problems across their entire enterprise and product portfolios. As trusted advisors, Praetorian helps organizations minimize overall information security risk across digital assets so they can focus on what's important—their core business.

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