Red Team Security Engineer
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Red Team Security Engineer validating vulnerabilities, attack paths, and AI-enabled systems. Strengthening defenses for Backblaze’s open cloud storage platform through offensive and purple-team exercises.
Responsibilities:
- Continuously validate whether vulnerabilities, configurations, identities, applications, infrastructure, and AI-enabled systems can be exploited by realistic adversaries
- Emulate external attackers, malicious insiders, compromised identities, and autonomous adversarial agents
- Validate whether vulnerabilities and configuration weaknesses are reachable and practically exploitable
- Develop and execute realistic 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 controlled offensive testing
- Test AI applications and agents for prompt injection, tool abuse, excessive privilege, identity compromise, and emerging attack classes
- Validate compensating controls and mitigations before or after deployment
- Conduct purple-team exercises with Security Analytics and Security Operations to validate 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
Benefits:
- Equal Opportunity Employer
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion commitment
- Culture emphasizing learning, developing, and growing
- Backblaze Employee Privacy Notice regarding application data processing
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