Offensive Security Researcher, Senior
InformaticaBase Salary
$149k - $246k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead manual offensive security assessments, code reviews, architectural analysis, and threat modeling.
- Identify critical, systemic, and high-impact vulnerabilities, attack vectors, abuse cases, and bypass techniques.
- Partner with engineers, technical leads, and architects to explain risks and implement scalable remediations.
- Drive secure-by-default initiatives through security guardrails, baseline controls, safer defaults, and platform-level improvements.
- Influence application and platform designs and apply security standards throughout the development lifecycle.
- Mentor engineers and peers on security knowledge and offensive techniques.
- Collaborate with detection, monitoring, and incident response teams to improve visibility into exploitation.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in Application Security or Offensive Security.
- Demonstrated ability to independently find and remediate vulnerabilities in complex applications.
- Deep knowledge of web application security, OWASP Top 10, authentication and authorization flaws, API security, injection attacks, logic flaws, access-control bypasses, secure design, and threat modeling.
- Hands-on manual security testing experience beyond automated tools.
- Ability to translate complex security findings into actionable guidance for engineers and technical leadership.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and engineering-team influence skills.
- Preferred: published security research or CVEs, including technical blogs, advisories, whitepapers, or conference presentations.
- Preferred: experience with platform- or framework-level security improvements, vulnerability discovery, security research, red teaming, or secure-by-default and security-by-design concepts.
- Preferred: familiarity with cloud-native architectures, microservices, and distributed systems.
Benefits
- Benefits include time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- The listed compensation is base salary only and excludes bonus, incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
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About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com