Red Team Security Engineer (Fully Remote)

Backblaze; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Backblaze is seeking a security engineer to emulate external attackers, malicious insiders, compromised identities, and autonomous adversarial agents to uncover exploitable weaknesses across web, cloud, identity, and infrastructure. In this role you will validate vulnerabilities, map realistic attack paths, and work with teams to harden configurations, systems, and controls.

You will lead purple-team exercises and translate offensive findings into concrete improvements for detection, response,

Responsibilities

• Emulate external attackers, malicious insiders, compromised identities, and autonomous adversarial agents.
• Validate vulnerabilities and configuration weaknesses to determine practical exploitability and develop realistic attack paths across web, cloud, identity, and infrastructure.
• Conduct purple-team exercises and translate offensive findings into actionable improvements for detection and response.

Job description

• - Emulate external attackers, malicious insiders, compromised identities, and autonomous adversarial agents.
• - Validate vulnerabilities and configuration weaknesses to determine practical exploitability and develop realistic attack paths across web, cloud, identity, and infrastructure.
• - Conduct purple-team exercises and translate offensive findings into actionable improvements for detection and response.