Senior Offensive Security Researcher — Remote Europe

Invicti; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Wellness days

Volunteer time off

Birthday off

Job summary

Invicti is seeking a hands-on offensive security researcher to transform vulnerability knowledge into high-quality detection content that ships with our platform. You will own detection rules, write precise logic, and maintain low false positives across a broad attack surface.

You will lead research across OWASP Top 10, cloud-native security, LLM vulnerabilities, and AI-assisted development, collaborating with AI/ML, platform, and CI/CD teams to ship robust detections and scalable security

Qualifications

• 8+ years of offensive security or application security research experience.
• Broad knowledge of programming languages—JavaScript is a must, Python is a huge plus.
• Deep understanding of vulnerability classifications, exploitation methodologies, and secure software development practices.

Responsibilities

• Create new detection rules (primarily OpenGrep) to catch novel malware and vulnerability patterns.
• Extend support for new programming languages across our analysis pipeline.
• Research novel ways to exploit and analyze modern web applications and APIs, building proof-of-concept attacks.

Skills

JavaScript

Python

Offensive security

Detection writing

DAST tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree + 5 years OR Master's + 3 years

Tools

Burp Suite

sqlmap

nmap

ffuf

OpenGrep

Job description

Invicti is seeking a hands-on offensive security researcher to transform vulnerability knowledge into high-quality detection content that ships with our platform. You will own detection rules, write precise logic, and maintain low false positives across a broad attack surface.

You will lead research across OWASP Top 10, cloud-native security, LLM vulnerabilities, and AI-assisted development, collaborating with AI/ML, platform, and CI/CD teams to ship robust detections and scalable security