Offensive Security Engineer, Red Team X

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Bellevue, WA

Meta Security is looking for an Offensive Security Engineer with experience in vulnerability research and exploit development. You will help the team establish, lead, and execute multi-year roadmaps to mature security, drawing upon cross functional partnerships to deliver security posture reviews on a repeatable basis.

Offensive Security Engineer, Red Team X Responsibilities

Conduct offensive security engagements and lead vulnerability research assessments in a cross-functional environment and drive finding remediations.

Collaborate with the different teams within the Offensive Security Group, Detection and Response organization, and Product Security Group to develop and offer holistic offensive security solutions.

Develop Offensive Security initiatives that improve our capabilities to conduct security research and exploitation to improve the organization's prevention, detection, response, and threat hunting capabilities.

Refine operational metrics, key performance indicators, and service level objectives to measure Red Team X services.

Influence and align the team’s vision and strategy. Collaboratively prioritize and deliver specific multi-year roadmaps and projects.

Build, cultivate, and maintain positive relationships with internal customers to identify and facilitate solutions to increase the impact of the team's work.

Partner with cross-functional teams to solve challenges related to a broad spectrum of security initiatives.

Coach, mentor, support and care for the team in a way that enables long-term career development, happiness and success at scale.

Be a technical and process subject matter expert regarding Red Teaming and Offensive Security services, and attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures.

Minimum Qualifications

10+ years of work experience in Security Research and Offensive Security in a large, regulated organization.

Experience developing and delivering information on offensive engagements and program status for leadership.

Experience working with public threat intelligence reporting and internal threat intelligence teams to create and adapt offensive security offerings to improve security programs of all maturity levels in a large organization.

Experience leading and managing complex cross-functional programs and teams.

Experience emulating both external and insider threats.

Experience vulnerability hunting in OS and Hardware layer

Knowledge of networking technologies, specifically TCP/IP and the related protocols.

Knowledge of operating systems, file systems, and memory structures on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

Coding and scripting experience in one or more general purpose languages.

Bachelor's degree (or foreign degree equivalent) in Information Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Security, Cyber Security, Information Assurance, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in coding and breaking functional programming language systems.

Experience in exploitation techniques for Android and IOS operating systems

Experience attacking in exploitation techniques in Hardware/Firmware layer

Broad knowledge across the Security domain, as well as demonstrated focus in adversary emulation and in one (or more) areas of Offensive Security such as Red Teaming, Purple Teaming, Vulnerability Research and Exploitation.

Experience recruiting, building, and leading technical teams, including performance management.

Master’s degree (or foreign degree equivalent) in Information Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Security, Cyber Security, Information Assurance, or related field.

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$177,000/year to $251,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.

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