# Senior Offensive Security Engineer

**Company:** [Chime](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/chime)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $181k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Red Teaming, Offensive Security, Cloud Attacks, Kubernetes, Custom Exploits, Adversarial Simulation, Purple Teaming, Web Application Security, Payload Development, Vulnerability Research
**Posted:** 2026-04-23

> Leads offensive security program by conducting red team exercises, developing custom exploits, and emulating adversaries to identify weaknesses in web apps, cloud platforms, and Kubernetes infrastructure. Requires 4+ years in offensive security or red teaming with strong cloud attack experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Independently manage complete red team exercises.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, IT, and other business functions to drive security improvement across the organization.
- Research emerging attack vectors, vulnerabilities and techniques.
- Utilize offensive skills to identify weaknesses and build defenses against those who may point their attacks at Chime.
- Develop custom payloads and exploits.
- Emulate adversaries like cybercriminals and insider threats by attacking web applications, cloud platforms and supporting services (Kubernetes / Container Orchestration platforms etc.).
- Collaborate closely with detection engineers to build high fidelity alerting based on emerging attack vectors and tactics, techniques and procedures.
- Participate in purple-team exercises to mature the security program.

## Requirements
- 4+ years of combined experience in either an offensive security, red teaming, or application security role.
- Experience in conducting surreptitious cloud based attacks.
- Experience with developing custom tools and payloads which bypass defensive products, and remain undetected in a mature network environment.
- Ability to perform unsupervised red team engagements and experience with performing adversarial simulation.
- Ability to explain vulnerabilities and weaknesses to non-technical stakeholders.

## Nice to Haves
- Relevant certifications: OSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional), OSCE (Offensive Security Certified Expert) and OSEE (Offensive Security Exploitation Expert), Certified Red Team Operator (CRTO), GIAC Red Team Professional certification (GRTP).

## Compensation
- Base salary: $181,000 - $250,000.
- Full-time employees eligible for bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits.

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