Offensive Security Engineer - Red Team
InformaticaBase Salary
$117k - $246k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and run end-to-end red team operations simulating real threat actors.
- Use threat intelligence to emulate APT groups and adapt tactics as defenders respond.
- Find, exploit, and chain weaknesses across applications, identity, cloud, and hybrid enterprise environments.
- Build custom tooling, payloads, and techniques to test security controls and detections.
- Collaborate with the Red Team Director, Detection and Response, Detection Engineering, and Blue Teams on campaigns and purple team exercises.
- Help engineering teams identify root causes and implement durable fixes.
- Serve as a technical escalation point for complex attack paths and disputed findings.
- Mentor other engineers and explain attack chains and business risks to executive leadership.
- Follow rules of engagement, scoping limits, and OPSEC practices.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience in red teaming, penetration testing, or adversary simulation, including end-to-end attack campaigns.
- Experience with manual exploitation, attack chaining, and custom exploit, tooling, or payload development.
- Working knowledge of threat actor TTPs and identity, application, cloud, and hybrid enterprise attack surfaces.
- Experience bypassing layered security controls and detections and documenting findings and remediation guidance for technical and executive audiences.
- Preferred: published security research, including CVE credits, blog posts, or conference talks.
- Preferred: experience with assumed-breach or long-running adversary emulation campaigns and collaboration with Detection and Response or purple team functions.
- Preferred: malware analysis or exploit development experience and familiarity with cloud-native architectures and identity-centric security models.
- Preferred: GXPN, OSCP, OSEP, OSWE, CRTO, CRTL, or other offensive security certifications.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement in San Francisco, CA or Bellevue, WA.
- Time off programs, medical, dental, vision, and mental health support.
- Paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- Salesforce uses AI tools in recruiting, with humans making candidate selection and hiring decisions.
- Reasonable accommodations are available during the application and recruiting process.
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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