Cybersecurity Engineer, Senior Manager

Two Six Technologies is seeking a visionary Cybersecurity Engineer, Senior Manager to architect, build, and defend the highly secure environments that power our advanced R&D initiatives. We are looking for a true security architect who can seamlessly bridge the gap between rigorous government security frameworks (NIST, STIGs, CMMC) and complex operational engineering. In this role, you will lead the strategic design of our secure infrastructure, guide DevSecOps integration across software projects, and engineer pragmatic, intent-based security solutions. If you excel at deconflicting stringent compliance mandates with real-world engineering challenges, and thrive in a role that spans infrastructure defense, network architecture, and application security, we want you to lead our team.

Preferable locations are San Antonio TX and Arlington VA. The role is considered hybrid, and would require at least 3 days a week in the office at either location.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Security Architecture: Architect custom security solutions that deconflict stringent government compliance requirements with critical operational needs. Move beyond standard "box checking" to design risk-optimized, tailored controls.
• Intent-Based Engineering: Engineer alternative technical solutions when literal remediation causes operational failure. Leverage deep system knowledge and industry best practices to meet the core security intent of a framework while maintaining system functionality.
• Design & Implementation: Lead the hands-on technical development, configuration, and deployment of secure IT infrastructure and custom security tools, ensuring all architectures are defensible during an audit.
• Threat Defense & Mitigation Strategy: Develop high-level strategies, playbooks, and architectures for threat detection and incident response. Oversee the vulnerability mitigation lifecycle, guiding the team's efforts so that day-to-day monitoring is handled by staff while the Lead focuses on proactive, structural defense improvements.
• Collaborative Security: Partner with development and IT teams to seamlessly integrate security and compliance into CI/CD pipelines and software development lifecycles while supporting innovation.
• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Direct a small team of security professionals across multiple projects. Mentor junior team members on how to balance strict compliance auditing with pragmatic, operational engineering solutions.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, or comparable experience.
• Leadership: Experience managing small interactive teams.  Candidates will be required to task junior reports, and should have strong mentorship skills.
• Strategic Risk & Compliance Mastery: Deep understanding of NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53b, CMMC, and DISA STIGs. Proven ability to interpret the underlying risk objective of a control to engineer solutions that satisfy auditors without breaking operations.
• Advanced Systems Expertise: Deep technical mastery of operating systems (primarily RHEL/Linux). Must possess the system-level knowledge (e.g., Linux internals, process management) required to design custom, defensible security configurations backed by vendor documentation when standard STIG guidance is insufficient.
• Operational Deconfliction: A highly analytical mindset with a track record of identifying conflicts between security mandates and operational uptime, and successfully architecting "semi-custom" solutions that keep risk to an acceptable minimum.
• Network Security Architecture: Strong architectural understanding of secure network paradigms (e.g., Zero Trust, macro/micro-segmentation) and fundamentals. Ability to guide the implementation of complex boundary defenses and validate network security controls.
• Application Security & Code Analysis: High technical competency in application security principles. Must be capable of analyzing SAST tool outputs, architecting defensible arguments for false positives to present to customers, and providing strategic guidance to developers on resolving legitimate vulnerabilities.
• Security Automation: Strategic approach to automating repetitive security operations using scripting and CI/CD pipelines. Proven ability to build self-sustaining security workflows that free up engineering staff to focus on high-complexity problems.
• Clearance:  Eligibility to obtain and maintain a security clearance up to TS/SCI. 

Preferred Experience

• Advanced Code Review: Practical experience reading, reviewing, and defending SAST findings in compiled languages such as Java, Golang, or C and/or interpreted languages like Python or NodeJS.
• DevSecOps & Containerization: Hands-on experience architecting secure CI/CD pipelines and software development workflows utilizing platforms like Jenkins, GitHub, or GitLab. Familiarity with securing OCI-compliant container ecosystems (e.g., Docker) is highly desirable.
• Virtualization & Cloud Architecture: Experience securing, architecting, or managing hyperconverged virtual infrastructure (specifically VMware or Proxmox) and/or cloud-native enterprise environments (e.g., AWS).
• Enterprise Boundary Defense: Practical experience engineering, deploying, or migrating advanced enterprise firewall and network security solutions (e.g., Fortinet).
• Specialized Enclaves & R&D Networks: Proven experience designing, auditing, or managing compliance for research and development (R&D) environments, specifically involving the creation or maintenance of CMMC Level 2 compliant networks.
• AI Security Oversight: Experience implementing security guardrails for teams using AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini).
• Automated Compliance: Ability to translate security mandates into Policy-as-Code to ensure rapid, AI-generated deployments remain compliant with NIST/CMMC frameworks.
• AI Risk Assessment: Practical understanding of the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs and how to mitigate risks related to prompt injection and AI-generated code vulnerabilities.
• Clearance:  Active TS/SCI clearance

Clearance Requirements:

• This position requires eligibility to obtain and maintain a security clearance up to TS/SCI

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Senior Backend Engineer II - Golang

Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer II - Golang

Work Location: Austin, TX

Reports to: Alex Lostak

Level: 5

Salary Range: $160,000 - $190,000 

About Grocery TV

Grocery TV is a leading in-store retail media platform. Over 120 retailers partner with Grocery TV to modernize stores and drive incremental revenue while delivering a more engaging shopping experience. We manage the complexities of operating an in-store media network, allowing retailers to focus on serving customers. Reaching 1 in 4 Americans across 6,500+ stores, Grocery TV connects brands with shoppers at the moment of decision, where 90% of purchases take place. For more information, visit www.grocerytv.com. 

About The Role

This engineer will play a critical role in scaling and hardening Grocery TV’s backend systems as the platform continues to grow. This engineer will work across APIs, content delivery pipelines, and media network orchestration services to improve system resiliency, performance, and reliability. Operating at a Senior II  level, this role is expected to lead and execute backend initiatives end-to-end, bring strong system design judgment, and translate business and product needs into durable technical solutions. This position partners closely with Product and other Software Engineers to ensure backend systems support both current execution and long-term platform strategy.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-scale backend services using Go
• Lead implementation of backend projects that improve system reliability, resiliency, and performance
• Design and evolve API-first services that support customer-facing and internal applications
• Contribute to system architecture and technical design for future initiatives
• Partner with Product to scope, plan, and execute backend work aligned with business goals
• Identify and remediate performance bottlenecks and reliability risks across distributed systems
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation to support production systems
• Collaborate closely with other engineers through pairing, design reviews, and code reviews
• Drive operational excellence through observability, monitoring, and incident follow-ups
• Proactively identify and implement process improvements in software development process
• Be a champion for testing. Leading by example through unit and integration testing throughout projects

Requirements / Experience

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
• Strong proficiency in Go for building backend services
• Experience designing and operating high-scale, high-volume backend systems
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts and tradeoffs
• Experience building API-first services, including customer-facing APIs
• Familiarity with system reliability, performance tuning, and fault tolerance strategies
• Experience working with relational databases and data stores in production environments
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to reason about complex systems

Interview Process

1. Apply: We review applications as soon as we can. You should hear back about your application within two weeks. 
2. Introduction to Hiring Manager: Meet with the hiring manager (virtually or in-person) to share your background, learn about the role, and align on logistics.
3. Technical Interview: Visit our office for a technical interview that relates to the role. You’ll respond to a prompt, and our team will ask questions to better understand your skillset. 
4. Virtual Values Interview: Meet with two Grocery TV employees who you’ll work cross functionally with to discuss team collaboration. This is a perfect opportunity for you to ask us questions, too! 
5. Virtual Leadership Interview: Lastly, all candidates have a final interview with a member of the leadership team. This conversation gives you the opportunity to reflect on the interview process and affirm this is the right role for you.

About the Role

As a Staff Embedded Software Engineer, you will spearhead the development of brand-new camera categories while driving the continued growth and reliability of our ever-expanding global fleet. This role is a high-impact technical leadership position requiring seamless collaboration across the entire stack—including Hardware, Product, Backend, and Frontend teams—to bring first-generation systems to life. Reporting directly to the Camera Firmware Manager, you will work full-time at our HQ in San Mateo to oversee the technical lifecycle of our newest hardware and ensure the operational excellence of a multi-million device, perpetually online IoT footprint.

What You'll Do

• Unlocking New Markets: Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of entirely new camera categories for untapped market segments. Collaborate directly with Hardware and Product teams during the initial co-design phase, to influence HW selection and feature scoping.
• Architectural Leadership: Own the firmware roadmap and drive the large-scale architectural changes required to support novel features across the entire stack—from low-level MCUs to Linux-based edge services.
• System-Wide Technical Depth: Engineer high-performance features across a diverse software landscape, spanning bare-metal MCU firmware, secure bootloaders, Linux kernel optimizations, and concurrent userspace services.
• Complex Problem Solving: Tackle the most "gnarly" system-level challenges, from non-deterministic race conditions and memory corruption to elusive hardware-software timing issues that only emerge at the scale of a million-device fleet.
• Navigate Multi-Dimensional Trade-offs: Systematically balance conflicting priorities—including hardware security hardening, peak performance, power efficiency, and deep fleet observability
• Cross-Functional Optimization: Partner with CV, Streaming, and Storage teams to architect vertically integrated features that push the boundaries of edge computing and real-time computer vision.
• Operational Excellence at Scale: Champion a reliability-first culture for a global fleet of 1.5 million perpetually online devices, designing the deployment and monitoring strategies that ensure 24/7 uptime.

What You Bring

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of professional experience in systems software development for performance and resource-constrained environments.
• 5+ years of experience building software for Linux-based platforms.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale, cross-functional initiatives from concept to production. You have a history of aligning diverse engineering verticals to deliver complex systems on aggressive timelines.
• Proven experience leading initial board bring-up and hardware-software co-design for first-generation embedded devices.
• Hands-on experience with low-level protocols (SPI, I2C, UART, USB) and the ability to debug complex hardware-software interactions.
• Experience designing, implementing and debugging concurrent/multithreaded firmware services
• Strong understanding of modern operating systems, computer architecture, and trade-offs between compute, memory, and storage.
• Proficient in at least one systems programming language: C++ or Golang.
• Familiarity with Bash scripting and Python for tooling and automation.
• Bonus Qualification: Direct experience with Linux Kernel development, including writing or debugging drivers, managing device trees, or optimizing kernel-space performance.
• Bonus Qualification: Technical depth in MCU firmware and the boot stack, with a focus on RTOS, bare-metal development, or secure boot implementation.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills, with the ability to collaborate across engineering and product teams.

US Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Professional development stipend
• Fertility Stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits

Additional Information

• We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.

We are hiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our Global Core Infrastructure team and help build and operate the global platform behind Workato.com/go. You will work closely with engineers in the US and across international teams to design, scale, and secure the systems that power Workato’s automation platform - trusted by thousands of enterprises and processing billions of events every day.

Role Overview

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll be part of the team responsible for the architecture, scalability, and reliability of Workato’s distributed cloud platform. You’ll design and optimize the systems that allow our services to run securely and efficiently at scale. This is a highly technical role that requires deep experience with cloud infrastructure, Linux internals, and large-scale distributed systems. 

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain a global, distributed, and resilient cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with AI engineering and iPaaS  engineering teams to plan and deliver complex platform initiatives.
• Patch and optimize open-source components for performance and security.
• Build iPaaS and AI infrastructure at scale and cross-cloud.
• Manage and provision AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Write and maintain Kubernetes manifests and deployment configurations for critical workloads.
• Improve and maintain CI/CD pipelines for scalable and secure component delivery.
• Tune Linux systems and open-source software for high performance and hardened security.
• Build internal tools to streamline engineering workflows and operational automation.
• Participate in architecture reviews, incident response, and performance analysis to ensure system reliability.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure or systems engineering roles.
• Proven expertise in distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong understanding of Linux internals, including networking and system-level performance tuning.
• Experience operating infrastructure on AWS at scale.
• Proficiency with Terraform, Kubernetes. 
• Solid understanding of network security and cloud security best practices.
• Hands-on experience optimizing CI/CD workflows and automating deployments.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Golang for tooling or internal services.
• Experience building cross-cloud AI infrastructure.
• Familiarity with Kafka, Redis, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, or similar technologies.
• Experience with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or VictoriaMetrics.
• Understanding of Vault or other secrets management systems.
• Contributions to or maintenance of open-source infrastructure projects.
  
  

Tech Stack

• AWS • Terraform • Kubernetes •  LiteLLM • Quadrant • ArgoCD • Kafka • PostgreSQL • Redis • ClickHouse • Grafana • VictoriaMetrics • Vault

Why Join Us

• Build and operate a world-class cloud platform used by leading global enterprises.
• Collaborate with experienced engineers in the US and across international teams.
• Work in a highly technical environment focused on scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Contribute to an engineering culture that values ownership, craftsmanship, and innovation.

This is a full-time position with a salary range of $180,000.00 - $240,000.00 per year, depending on experience and qualifications. The package includes health insurance, paid time off, and a 401(k) plan.

Build, Deploy, and Maintain AI for an Unpredictable World

Striveworks helps organizations harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve real-world national security and business challenges by serving as the command center between data, models, and business outcomes. Founded by data scientists and engineers, Striveworks set out to make the journey from deployment to ongoing optimization simple and effective.

With Striveworks, organizations aren’t just deploying AI—they’re building systems that remain reliable, adaptable, and ready to scale in an unpredictable world. Mission-critical operations require models that perform where they’re deployed, scale as workloads grow, and adapt rapidly as AI capabilities advance. Striveworks meets these demands, increasing reliability and performance while lowering costs—and enabling confident, data-driven decision-making in dynamic environments.

The Role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Striveworks, you will be challenged—and trusted—on day one to take ownership of specific product deployments by maintaining, optimizing, and enhancing our on-premises and cloud computing environments. You will play a crucial role in the successful deployment of our software solutions to clients. You will be responsible for executing technical aspects of implementation projects and for ensuring the seamless integration, customization, and configuration of our software. Your expertise will play a critical role for the company as we deploy new instances of Striveworks’ AI operations (AIOps) capabilities to customer infrastructure.

You are right for this opportunity if you value and possess technical expertise and you enjoy pushing the boundaries of your capabilities. You will be responsible for maintaining Striveworks’ software deployments using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) methodologies. 

Your day-to-day will include:

• Automating IaC to manage virtual machines and deploy containers, services, and other infrastructure; applying your expertise to deploy custom Kubernetes clusters in AWS, Azure, GCP, on-premises, or hybrid cloud environments
• Working with platform developers, other DevOps teammates, and customer-facing teams to define requirements and build solutions for customer use cases of the platform
• Software deployments to commercial and, later, unclassified, CUI, and classified Department of Defense (DOD) networks
• Incident response and initial triage of critical system faults

The Senior DevOps Engineer works on the DevOps team. You will be responsible for monitoring, automating, and improving software reliability, performance, and availability for various projects. You will also act as a liaison between platform developers and customer-facing teams, taking on operational tasks to ensure the efficient functioning of Striveworks’ solutions. You will work alongside a team of software engineers and data scientists to help them deploy and operate their work as functional products, learning from them so that building effective AI solutions becomes second nature. You may provide guidance and leadership to junior DevOps team members.

You will directly contribute to the success of mission-critical systems within national security and commercial clients. You will be expected to wear multiple hats and to step into vacuums where improvements are needed, and you will be given the breadth to explore new technologies and solutions. 

This position offers a fully remote work environment, or you can work hybrid/on site at our office in northwest Austin, TX. You will be expected to travel up to 20% of the time.

The Right Fit

In addition to the specific skills and expertise detailed below, we are looking for individuals who share our values. Sharing a set of values allows us to move at the speed of trust. 

Collectively, we value a high-trust work environment where people respect each other and use candor kindly and constructively. We value work that intersects passion and perseverance, we geek out about the potential of our contributions, and we find joy in working hard on things that matter. Finally, we value taking ownership, having agency, and feeling individual responsibility for collective results.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• 6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in:
• Python and/or Golang programming, or other general purpose programming languages
• Microservice deployment in Kubernetes
• Diagnosing and resolving issues within containerized environments
• Helm Chart and Kustomizations development/deployment
• Automation and IaC (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
• Cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, or OpenStack)
• Managing and troubleshooting Linux systems (e.g., RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS)
• The ability to work cross functionally to define requirements and build solutions for customer use cases of the platform
• The ability to respond professionally and competently to incident reports and triage critical system faults
• Active Secret (or above) US security clearance
• Due to the nature of this role, candidates must have US citizenship

The Wish List

We are very interested in candidates who possess the above qualifications, and we appreciate and consider the addition of:

• Experience with US federal information system security policies, including Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, CMMC, and ICD 503
• Experience with software deployments to on-premises and cloud-based unclassified, CUI, and classified networks within the DOD
• Experience with DevSecOps/DevOps and CI/CD for the administration and deployment of GPU-enabled servers
• Experience deploying or maintaining Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects
• Experience with network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) technologies
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native applications and services in denied, disrupted, intermittent, and limited impact (DDIL) environments 

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $160,000 to $200,000/year. Striveworks’ total compensation package includes a competitive base salary, equity grants, and cash bonuses.

The Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Voluntary life, long-term disability, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance
• HSA and FSA (including dependent care FSA) plans 
• 401(k) plan
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid parental leave

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Striveworks is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, belief, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity or expression), national origin, social or ethnic origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factors. Striveworks will not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind.

If you require assistance or a reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact Operations at hr@striveworks.us.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete an employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

Striveworks is a participating employer in the E-Verify program.

About the Team:

You are a passionate engineer who enjoys taking on new challenges. You are looking for an opportunity in a startup where you can grow with the company as an engineer. You are excited about building large scale distributed data systems and enjoy solving complex software problems. You are energized by the opportunity to help grow our product portfolio. You are self-motivated and are able to switch contexts as business needs change. You are adept at introducing new pragmatic designs and providing strong technical leadership. You value good design and readable code over fleeting trends.

Our Stack:

• Programming Languages: Golang and TypeScript
• Frameworks: React, Vite, MaterialUI
• Relational Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL
• NoSQL Databases: ElasticSearch, DynamoDB
• Infrastructure: AWS, Azure, Docker, Terraform
• Operating Systems: Linux, Windows

What You'll Do:

1. Feature Development:
• Develop, deploy, and test existing and new products.
• Ensure high-quality results and timely delivery of full product roadmap items.
2. Technical Leadership:
• Provide strong leadership on technical direction and pragmatic design decisions.
• Maintain good work ethics and a humble attitude while working in a fast-paced environment.
• Troubleshoot customer-reported issues.
3. Team Collaboration and Improvement:
• Adopt existing team practices and recommend improvements as needed.
• Work collaboratively with team members to achieve common goals.
• Mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Requirements:

1. Professional Experience:
• At least 7 years of professional experience delivering high-quality production software.
2. Technical Proficiency:
• Strong working knowledge of a programming language in our stack.
• Strong working knowledge of building and interacting with RESTful APIs.
• Strong working knowledge of a relational and a NoSQL based database in our stack.
• Strong working knowledge of front end development with TypeScript and React.
• Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming.
• Working knowledge of software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build and deployment processes, and testing.
3. Cloud Experience:
• Strong working knowledge of AWS services such as ECS, lambda, and RDS.
• Strong working knowledge of general cloud architecture concepts of API gateways and patterns for deploying modern and secure applications.
4. Communication and Problem-Solving:
• Excellent communication and writing skills.
5. Version Control and Additional Skills:
• AWS CodeBuild
• GitHub
• GitHub Actions

The ideal candidate possesses a strong understanding of building internal security tooling and data pipelines using public cloud infrastructure, leveraging AI technologies.  This role will be within SpyCloud Labs, SpyCloud’s in-house Security Research team, and focus on building automation and other internal tooling to facilitate the collection of recaptured third-party breach and malware data.  This is a full-time remote role supporting a hybrid workforce.

What You'll Do:

• Design, implement, and maintain internal tooling for acquiring and parsing recaptured underground data.
• Build and deploy cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code technologies.
• Build and deploy automated CI/CD pipelines to test and deploy tooling and infrastructure.
• Collaborate directly with the research team to support the targeting and collection of new data sources.
• Be the subject matter expert on Security Research Engineering and the data acquisition process.
• Leverage modern AI and LLM-based tooling to streamline development and collection workflows.
• Constantly and independently work to identify improvements and automation opportunities in the recaptured data workflow and ETL pipelines. 
• Participate in security research including investigation of threat actors, malware, and other critical research in support of SpyCloud’s priorities.
• Mentor junior security researchers and engineers including providing code review and guidance on efficient code writing and professional development 

Requirements:

• 6+ years experience in a Senior role within cybersecurity engineering.
• 6+ years of professional software development experience, preferably in the cybersecurity industry
• Experience using AI/ML in development workflows.
• Experience implementing AI/ML in data processing applications.
• Highly skilled with Python. Golang proficiency a plus.
• Experience building internal tooling and deploying using Infrastructure as Code technologies (we use Terraform and Ansible).
• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Math, Science, Engineering, or Business fields.
• Self-directed with the ability to identify and deliver on tasks without needing direct supervision.
• Critical thinker that is comfortable supporting collaborative problem solving in a team environment.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Highly self-motivated, empathetic, curious, and flexible.

Nice to Have:

• Experience working with large enterprises in delivery of security analytics products.
• Experience in acquiring and processing malware-exfiltrated data 
• Experience in using data science to analyze datasets for the purposes of detecting fraud or cyberthreats.
• Experience with databases (relational or NoSQL) and designing efficient database architecture.

For applicants residing in California, please click here to read SpyCloud's CCPA Notice.

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for an Offensive Security Engineer who operates with clear ownership. You’re not just filling a seat. You’re setting the standard. You believe great execution brings strategy to life.

How You Operate

You bring mission-driven grit to every challenge, running toward hard problems rather than away from it. You prioritize customer outcomes over internal processes and choose truth and clarity over performative politeness. We look for builders with a bias for action—people who own the fix when things break, share credit with the team, and possess the intellectual humility to care more about getting to the right answer than being right.

What You Will Own

• Own the Outcome: Execute challenging security projects for our PS and MSP customers, ensuring technical precision and successfully resolving complex client needs.
• Take Accountability: Be accountable for the success of unique engagements by developing custom methodologies, payloads, exploits, and tools when off-the-shelf solutions aren't enough.
• Raise the Bar: Continuously improve the bridge between services and product by identifying vulnerability trends in the field and translating them into tangible improvements.
• Drive Impact: Proactively develop new Chariot capabilities based on the specific security vulnerabilities identified during PS security projects.
• Scale Expertise: Aggressively learn as much as possible about the industry and offensive security landscape to ensure the team remains on the bleeding edge of tradecraft.

What You Bring

• The Foundation: A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics, backed by 0–2 years of experience or relevant internships in cybersecurity, startups, or high-tech environments.
• Technical Fluency: You have experience writing software or scripts using common offensive security languages, specifically Go (Golang), Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Domain Expertise: You have early experience or a demonstrated passion for Product Security (App/Mobile/LLM), Cloud Security (AWS/Azure/GCP), Web/Network Penetration Testing, Red Teaming, or IoT/Embedded Security.
• Offensive Security Mindset: You don't just work 9-to-5; you compete. You have notable achievements in CTFs (CCDC, CPTC) or on testing platforms like Hack The Box, TryHackMe, or PortSwigger.
• The "Plus One" Edge: You go beyond the basics with verifiable contributions to vulnerability research (CVEs), exploit development, or open-source offsec projects. Familiarity with AI prompt engineering for tool/payload generation is a strong plus.
• Certifications: You hold or are actively pursuing industry-recognized certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, PNPT, BSCP, OSWE, or relevant cloud certifications.

If This Position Is Wildly Successful, In One Year You Will Have:

• Delivered high-impact findings across multiple engagement types — red team operations, application security assessments, cloud security reviews — that materially improved clients' security posture and drove repeat engagements
• Developed custom methodologies, payloads, exploits, and tools that solved problems off-the-shelf solutions couldn't, advancing the team's offensive capabilities and contributing to Praetorian's reputation for technical excellence
• Produced clear, actionable reports that resonated with both technical practitioners and executive stakeholders — driving remediation, building client trust, and reinforcing Praetorian's credibility in the field
• Contributed meaningfully to Guard's capabilities by identifying recurring vulnerability trends in the field and translating them into tangible platform improvements that scale your impact beyond individual engagements
• Integrated AI tooling into your offensive workflows — using it to automate reconnaissance, accelerate payload development, and move faster through complex environments without sacrificing depth or precision
• Demonstrated versatility across the threat landscape — from traditional infrastructure and web applications to cloud-native environments and AI/ML systems — reflecting the evolving nature of modern attack surfaces
• Contributed research, blog posts, or conference presentations that elevated Praetorian's thought leadership in the offensive security community
• Mentored junior engineers and contributed to a culture of continuous learning, raising the technical floor across the team through your example and your investment in the people around you