AI-Enhanced Red Team Security Engineer

Backblaze; Poza Rica; On-site; MXN 1,339,000 - 2,009,000; Full time

Job summary

Backblaze is seeking a Red Team Security Engineer to continuously validate how vulnerabilities, configurations, identities, applications, and AI-enabled systems can be exploited by realistic adversaries. The role blends offensive security with AI-assisted adversary emulation to improve defenses.

The candidate will emulate attackers, develop attack paths, test AI applications for weaponization, and drive improvements across architecture and detections.

Qualifications

• Experience in red teaming, penetration testing, adversary emulation, or offensive security engineering.
• Strong web, API, cloud, identity, OS, and network security fundamentals.
• Experience validating practical exploitability and developing realistic attack paths.
• Strong understanding of MITRE ATT&CK and modern adversary techniques.
• Familiarity with OWASP Top 10 for LLM, OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications, and MITRE ATLAS.
• Scripting or software-development experience.
• Experience safely using automation or AI-assisted techniques in offensive-security workflows.

Responsibilities

• Emulate external attackers, malicious insiders, compromised identities, and autonomous adversarial agents.
• Validate whether vulnerabilities and configuration weaknesses identified are reachable and practically exploitable.
• Develop and execute realistic attack paths across web applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, identity systems, endpoints, and other enterprise services.
• Use AI-assisted and agentic techniques for reconnaissance, vulnerability analysis, attack-path discovery, and controlled offensive testing.
• Test AI applications and agents for prompt injection, tool abuse, excessive privilege, identity compromise, and other emerging attack classes.
• Validate compensating controls and mitigations before or after deployment.
• Conduct purple-team exercises with Security Analytics and Security Operations to validate telemetry, detection, and response effectiveness.
• Translate offensive findings into actionable improvements to architecture, configuration, detections, and response capabilities.

Skills

Red teaming

Penetration testing

Adversary emulation

Cloud security

MITRE ATT&CK

OWASP Top 10 (LLM, Agentic Apps)

Scripting/Software development

Automation/AI-assisted security

Job description

Backblaze is seeking a Red Team Security Engineer to continuously validate how vulnerabilities, configurations, identities, applications, and AI-enabled systems can be exploited by realistic adversaries. The role blends offensive security with AI-assisted adversary emulation to improve defenses.

The candidate will emulate attackers, develop attack paths, test AI applications for weaponization, and drive improvements across architecture and detections.