Remote Offensive Security Engineer - AI‑Driven Pen Tests

Bazeta; Redwood City (CA); Híbrido; USD 170.000 - 260.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Liftoff is seeking a Security Engineer, Offensive Security, to own internal offensive testing across applications and cloud infra. You will plan assessments, safely validate vulnerabilities, and work with engineers to remediate and retest.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted testing, automation, and strong cross-team collaboration. Senior-level position requiring hands-on penetration testing, code reviews, and production-quality security tooling across Liftoff’s stack.

Formación

• 5+ years of relevant security engineering experience, including hands-on testing of applications and infrastructure.
• Ability to own assessments from findings through remediation and retesting.
• Strong understanding of application/API security, authn/authz, network security, and common vuln classes.

Responsabilidades

• Independently plan and execute internal penetration tests across apps, APIs, cloud, and corporate systems.
• Define scope, rules of engagement, and safe validation of vulnerabilities.
• Collaborate with engineering to explain findings, track remediation, and retest.

Conocimientos

Penetration testing

Application security

Cloud security

Code review

Security tooling

Herramientas

Go

Python

JavaScript

Descripción del empleo

Liftoff is seeking a Security Engineer, Offensive Security, to own internal offensive testing across applications and cloud infra. You will plan assessments, safely validate vulnerabilities, and work with engineers to remediate and retest.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted testing, automation, and strong cross-team collaboration. Senior-level position requiring hands-on penetration testing, code reviews, and production-quality security tooling across Liftoff’s stack.