Red Team Security Engineer
Backblaze External Website17 hours ago
Remote, Costa Rica +2 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Emulate external attackers, malicious insiders, compromised identities, and autonomous adversarial agents.
- Validate the practical exploitability of vulnerabilities and configuration weaknesses.
- Develop and execute attack paths across web applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, identity systems, endpoints, and enterprise services.
- Use AI-assisted and agentic techniques for reconnaissance, vulnerability analysis, attack-path discovery, and offensive testing.
- Test AI applications and agents for prompt injection, tool abuse, excessive privilege, identity compromise, and related attack classes.
- Validate mitigations and compensating controls before and after deployment.
- Conduct purple-team exercises to assess telemetry, detection, and response effectiveness.
- Translate offensive findings into improvements to architecture, configuration, detections, and response capabilities.
Requirements
- Experience in red teaming, penetration testing, adversary emulation, or offensive security engineering.
- Strong web, API, cloud, identity, operating-system, and network security fundamentals.
- Experience validating practical exploitability and developing realistic attack paths.
- Strong understanding of MITRE ATT&CK and modern adversary techniques.
- Familiarity with OWASP Top 10 for LLM, OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications, and MITRE ATLAS.
- Scripting or software-development experience.
- Experience safely using automation or AI-assisted techniques in offensive-security workflows.
- Experience assessing cloud-native or AI-enabled systems, conducting purple-team exercises, or simulating autonomous adversaries is preferred.
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About Backblaze External Website
Backblaze provides cloud storage and backup services for businesses, developers, and individuals, centered on its B2 S3‑compatible object storage and Computer Backup offerings. It also offers B2 Overdrive for high‑throughput AI/GPU data pipelines and B2 Neo for white‑label enterprise storage, sold on usage-based and subscription pricing. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Mateo, the NASDAQ‑listed company (BLZE) serves 500,000+ customers across 175 countries.