Offensive Security Lead

SoFi; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

SoFi’s Cyber Defense team seeks an Offensive Security Lead to mature and grow Penetration Testing and Red Team programs. This hands-on leadership role demands building AI-assisted workflows to accelerate reconnaissance, exploit development, and reporting while scaling the program to meet rapid fintech growth.

You will own strategy, staffing, tooling, and execution quality, report to Cyber Defense leadership, and advise engineering, product, and risk partners across the company.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in offensive security with hands-on pentesting and red team experience.
• 2+ years directly leading offensive security teams, preferably in regulated industries.
• Proven design/implementation experience with AI-led or AI-assisted offensive security programs.
• Deep fluency across network, web/app, cloud, and mobile surfaces; familiarity with adversary emulation frameworks and C2 tooling.

Responsibilities

• Unify Penetration Testing and Red Team into a single Offensive Security function with shared standards and reporting.
• Set and execute the offensive security roadmap aligned with risk, regulation, and product velocity.
• Build and scale AI-augmented offensive security tools and workflows to improve coverage and throughput.
• Lead engagements across network, application, cloud, and AI pentests when needed.
• Hire, coach, and grow a team of testers and operators; define career paths between disciplines.
• Own metrics: coverage, severity, remediation velocity, engagement quality, and program ROI.
• Collaborate with Vulnerability Management, SOC/IR, AppSec, and Engineering to drive remediation and detection.
• Manage external pentest/red team vendors, scoping, quality, and budget.
• Represent Offensive Security in audits and executive briefings; translate risk for business leaders.

Skills

Offensive security

Team leadership

AI-assisted security

Network/Web/Mobile

Executive communication

Adversary emulation

Education

OSCP

OSCE

OSEP

GPEN

GXPN

CRTO

Tools

MITRE ATT&CK

AI tooling

C2 tooling

Job description

Who we are:

Shape a brighter financial future with us.

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Who we are:

Shape a brighter financial future with us.

Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance.

We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way.

Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world.

The Role:

SoFi's Cyber Defense organization is looking for an Offensive Security Lead to mature and grow our Penetration Testing and Red Team functions. This is a hands‑on leadership role for someone who has spent years both doing the work and building the program around it — someone equally comfortable running a red team engagement against a critical banking platform and designing the operating model that lets a small team of offensive operators keep pace with a fast‑growing fintech.

A defining part of this role is modernizing how the team scales. We're looking for a leader who has already built and implemented AI‑assisted penetration testing and red teaming programs — using AI tooling to accelerate reconnaissance, exploit development, attack‑path analysis, and reporting — and who can bring that experience to bear on the program.

You’ll own the strategy, staffing, tooling, and execution quality of both disciplines, report into Cyber Defense leadership, and act as a trusted advisor to engineering, product, and risk partners across the company.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and unify Penetration Testing and Red Team into a single, cohesive Offensive Security function — shared standards, shared tradecraft, shared reporting, distinct missions.
• Set and execute the offensive security roadmap, aligning testing scope and cadence to SoFi's risk profile, regulatory obligations, and the pace of product and platform change in the company.
• Build and scale AI‑augmented offensive security capabilities — design and implement tooling and workflows (AI‑assisted recon, vulnerability triage, exploit chaining, purple‑team simulation, report generation) that increase the team's coverage and throughput without sacrificing depth or tradecraft.
• Personally lead and contribute to engagements where needed — network, application, cloud, and AI pentests; adversary emulation and full‑scope red team operations — staying technically credible with the team you lead.
• Manage and develop the team: hire, coach, mentor, and grow a mix of penetration testers and red team operators; build clear career paths between the two disciplines and into leadership or other disciplines.
• Own program metrics and maturity: define KPIs for coverage, finding severity and remediation velocity, engagement quality, and program ROI; report progress to senior leadership and risk committees.
• Partner cross‑functionally with Vulnerability Management, SOC/Incident Response, Application Security, and engineering teams to ensure offensive findings drive real remediation and inform detection engineering.
• Manage external partnerships — third‑party pentest and red team tooling and/or execution vendors, — including scoping, quality oversight, and budget.
• Represent Offensive Security in audits, regulatory exams, and executive briefings, translating technical risk into business risk clearly and credibly.

What You’ll Need:

• 8+ years in offensive security, with demonstrated hands‑on experience in both penetration testing and red team/adversary emulation — not just one discipline.
• 2+ years directly managing or leading offensive security teams, ideally within a regulated industry (financial services, fintech, healthcare, or similar).
• Proven experience designing and implementing AI‑led or AI‑assisted offensive security programs — you can speak concretely to what you built, what tooling/models you used, what scaled and what didn’t, and how it changed team output.
• Deep technical fluency across network, web/application, cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), and mobile attack surfaces, plus familiarity with adversary emulation frameworks (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK) and C2 tooling.
• Track record of building programs from the ground up or maturing existing ones — process, tooling, metrics, and team structure, not just individual engagements.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfort presenting findings and program strategy to engineering leaders, risk teams, and executives.
• Experience operating in a highly regulated environment and working with auditors/examiners is a strong plus.
• Relevant certifications (OSCP, OSCE, OSEP, GPEN, GXPN, CRTO, or equivalent demonstrated experience) preferred but not required in lieu of strong hands‑on track record.

Compensation And Benefits

The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location.

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