Red Team Engineer

State Street; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

State Street is seeking a Red Team Engineer within the Global Cyber Security group to drive adversary-emulation, threat-informed security testing, and controlled offensive security operations. You will work in accordance with State Street standards, risk-acceptance requirements, and regulatory expectations, ensuring all decisions, evidence, findings, and outcomes are clear, traceable, and audit-ready.

You will collaborate with experts across applications, platforms, and infrastructure, security

Job description

Who We Are Looking For
As a member of the Red Team within the Global Cyber Security group, the Red Team Engineer will serve as a core technical contributor for adversary‑emulation, threat‑informed security testing, and controlled offensive security operations. The engineer will execute activities in accordance with State Street's standards and procedures, risk‑acceptance requirements, and regulatory expectations, ensuring all work is conducted within approved environments, scopes, and authorization pathways. The role also requires disciplined documentation practices so that assessment decisions, activities, evidence, findings, and outcomes are clear, traceable, and audit‑ready.

Who We Are Looking For
As a member of the Red Team within the Global Cyber Security group, the Red Team Engineer will serve as a core technical contributor for adversary‑emulation, threat‑informed security testing, and controlled offensive security operations. The engineer will execute activities in accordance with State Street's standards and procedures, risk‑acceptance requirements, and regulatory expectations, ensuring all work is conducted within approved environments, scopes, and authorization pathways. The role also requires disciplined documentation practices so that assessment decisions, activities, evidence, findings, and outcomes are clear, traceable, and audit‑ready.
The Red Team Engineer will conduct comprehensive, intelligence‑driven assessments of enterprise applications, critical infrastructure components, and associated operational and technical security controls. These assessments evaluate not only the security posture of targeted systems but also the effectiveness of the organization’s detection, prevention, response, and governance capabilities.
The Red Team Engineer will collaborate with technical experts across applications, platforms, and infrastructure, security leadership, and process stakeholders, threat intelligence and defensive analytics teams, security operations personnel, and business system owners to