Remote Principal Offensive Security Engineer — AI/Red Team

Alteryx Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 183,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health benefits

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Alteryx is seeking a Principal Offensive Security Engineer in the United States. This senior role leads risk-prioritized pentesting, red-team engagements, and AI-enabled offensive workflows across product and enterprise environments.

You will mentor practitioners, shape the offensive security program, and collaborate with security, engineering, and operations teams to improve detections, tooling, and incident response, while advancing AI integrations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in information security with hands-on pentesting/red teaming.
• Experience leading complex offensive security engagements.
• Expertise in cloud offensive security across GCP/AWS/Azure.
• Strong MITRE ATT&CK knowledge and mapping to defenses.
• Ability to develop/modify tooling in Python/PowerShell/Bash/Go.
• Proven AI integrations in offensive security workflows.
• Mentoring offensive security engineers and communicating risk clearly.

Responsibilities

• Lead risk-prioritized penetration testing and red-team campaigns.
• Design and execute adversary simulations across product and enterprise stacks.
• Develop AI-assisted workflows for reconnaissance, tooling, and analysis.
• Create custom scripts and automation to support engagements.
• Collaborate with SOC, Detection, IR, and Eng to validate defenses.
• Document findings with business impact and remediation guidance.

Skills

Penetration testing

Red team

Adversary simulation

Cloud security (GCP/AWS/Azure)

MITRE ATT&CK

Offensive security tooling

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Go

AI integrations

Purple-team exercises

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, or related field

Tools

GCP

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

AI tooling frameworks

Job description

Alteryx is seeking a Principal Offensive Security Engineer in the United States. This senior role leads risk-prioritized pentesting, red-team engagements, and AI-enabled offensive workflows across product and enterprise environments.

You will mentor practitioners, shape the offensive security program, and collaborate with security, engineering, and operations teams to improve detections, tooling, and incident response, while advancing AI integrations.