Red Team Tooling Engineer — Build Offensive Security Tools

Talent Smart; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite 1–2 days/week

Job summary

Talent Smart is seeking an Adversarial Tooling Engineer - Red Team in the UK, with hybrid working to school on-site in Sheffield 1–2 days a week. You will design, build and maintain internal offensive security tooling, translating Red Team requirements into reliable scripts, utilities and agent-side components for real-world engagements.

The role requires strong software engineering and practical offensive security experience across Red Teaming, with proficiency in Python, Go, C#, C++ or

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering experience building maintainable tools and services.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain internal offensive security tooling from concept through to deployment and support
• Work directly with Red Team operators to understand TTPs and translate requirements into effective technical solutions
• Develop and maintain an offensive tooling landscape that improves the capability, efficiency and repeatability of Red Team engagements
• Build tooling designed for real-world assessment conditions, including constrained environments and limited connectivity
• Apply secure-by-design principles, ensuring tooling operates within agreed rules of engagement and governance
• Develop AI-enabled and agentic tooling where appropriate, with suitable guardrails, approval controls and auditability
• Improve the quality, reliability and maintainability of the wider toolset through testing, documentation, refactoring and automation
• Work closely with adversarial engineers, defensive security teams and wider technology functions

Skills

Software engineering

Offensive security

Red Team tooling

Python

Go

C#

C++

TypeScript

CI/CD

Automated testing

Linux

Tools

APIs

Agent components

Automation frameworks

Job description

Talent Smart is seeking an Adversarial Tooling Engineer - Red Team in the UK, with hybrid working to school on-site in Sheffield 1–2 days a week. You will design, build and maintain internal offensive security tooling, translating Red Team requirements into reliable scripts, utilities and agent-side components for real-world engagements.

The role requires strong software engineering and practical offensive security experience across Red Teaming, with proficiency in Python, Go, C#, C++ or