Senior (Staff) Penetration Tester

Snowflake; Województwo mazowieckie; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Poland is seeking a Principal Vulnerability Research & Development Engineer to drive offensive security initiatives. You will lead the offensive security team, develop tools to enhance security across cloud environments, and participate in red team engagements. The ideal candidate has extensive software development experience, strong security skills, and a passion for innovation. Competitive compensation and opportunities for growth are offered.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software or infrastructure development experience.
• Knowledge of bugs or misconfigurations in cloud infrastructure.
• Experience in Offensive Security is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop tools for Red Team engagements across cloud environments.
• Participate in red team engagements to find vulnerabilities.
• Work with teams to communicate findings and recommendations.
• Lead the offensive security team and ensure minimal risk.

Skills

Offensive Security interest

Golang

Python

Java

JavaScript

C++

C

Strong communication skills

Job description

Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level.

Principal Vulnerability Research & Development Engineer

What you need

• You have a passion for writing code to solve problems combined with an interest in Offensive Security.
• You have 7+ years of software or infrastructure development experience, preferably in a cloud environment.
• Knowledge of common bugs or misconfigurations in software and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, and Azure).
• You have a continuously learning mindset with a desire to dive and explore a wide range of security domains.
• You can demonstrate a strong background in one of the following languages:
  • Golang
  • Python
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • C++
  • C
• Strong communication skills to work cross‑functionally across the organization.
• Experience in Offensive Security is a plus but not required.
• You break things and want to break them anywhere, in any cloud.
• You want your work to mean other people cannot break our things and collaborate to get it done.
• You eat and sleep offensive security research, bug bounties, CTFs, fuzzing, tools, and techniques.
• You find and exploit bugs in: C++, Java, JavaScript, Go, Python, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, memory management, namespaces, cgroups, etc.
• You have helped build or contributed at a senior level to an offensive security program before.
• You have a proven ability to manage yourself and produce results.
• You are comfortable working cross‑functionally with a track record of delivering results.

What you will do

• Develop tools, methodologies, and infrastructure to support Red Team engagements across various cloud environments and novel platforms.
• Participate in red team engagements against diverse cloud environments, find vulnerabilities in software, systems, and networks.
• Set scope, objectives, and timelines for red team engagements and leverage data to create useful metrics.
• Work with security and engineering teams to communicate findings, recommendations, and knowledge to key stakeholders.
• Play a critical role in building a Red Team that has a wide scope and impact.
• Lead the offensive security team.
• Break Snowflake before adversaries can.
• Work with threat hunters to ensure issues do not recur.
• Prove findings with data.

Why you should work with us

• We are laser focused on doing security better, and we do not tolerate the status quo.
• We are exploring new security domains across clouds and through the Snowflake platform.
• We have strong demand from our customers, and support from the business for security.
• We are a great team that combines a diverse set of backgrounds and skills.
• We’re one of the fastest‑growing software companies; the opportunity for impact is enormous.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?

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