About the Job
We are a fusion of former U.S. Special Operations cyber operators, startup engineers & operators, and formerly frustrated cybersecurity practitioners. We're committed to helping solve our common security problems: ineffective security tools and false positives, resulting in alert fatigue, blind spots, "checkbox” sec...
We're seeking a Senior Attack Engineer who blends deep software engineering expertise with a passion for cybersecurity. In this role, you’ll independently lead complex internal network and Active Directory attack projects in NodeZero, our autonomous pentesting platform.
Internal enterprise networks and Active Directory remain key targets in modern breaches, and it is exactly where our customers most need NodeZero to find and safely prove exploitable attack paths. The environments we operate in are hardening fast, while tradecraft continues to evolve across network protocols, identi...
Key Responsibilities
Research and develop novel attack capabilities for integration into the NodeZero platform, focusing on autonomous red teaming, internal network breach techniques, and offensive security automation.
Research emerging internal tradecraft (network protocol exploitation, Active Directory abuse, management-plane attacks, delegation, credential access, and hybrid identity pivots) and turn it into production attack content.
Design, build, and maintain production-grade Python systems, making clear tradeoffs between attack effectiveness, operational safety, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
Acquire, configure, and exploit modern, hardened internal test environments to validate and demonstrate complex attack scenarios.
Monitor public vulnerability databases and threat intelligence sources to stay current on emerging threats and incorporate them into internal network attack modules.
Extend and maintain platform architecture and graph data models for new identity, privilege-escalation, and lateral-movement paths.
Help shape the team's coverage priorities using customer needs, threat intelligence, and emerging techniques; scope deliverable projects and proactively raise risks and tradeoffs.
Mentor teammates and improve team processes, code quality, architectural standards, and research safety practices.
Partner cross-functionally with engineers, product managers, and customer-facing teams to resolve issues, enhance features, author technical documentation, and drive customer value.
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Required Skills & Abilities
Deep, hands-on offensive security experience against internal enterprise networks and Active Directory, from initial foothold through domain and enterprise compromise.
Expert-level proficiency in Python for large-scale development and a track record of shipping and maintaining tested, documented, production-quality code.
Strong command of internal network attack techniques, including network protocol exploitation, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and credential access.
Experience with object-oriented design, API integration, data structures, and building scalable system components in fast-paced product environments.
Experience designing complex software components or systems, accounting for extensibility, operational safety, performance, and long-term maintenance, and explaining the reasoning behind architectural decisions.
A track record of independently leading complex, high-impact technical projects with significant risk, making sound decisions under ambiguity, and identifying business implications and delivery risks before they become critical issues.
Strong written and verbal communication, including clear technical documentation and the ability to explain design choices, risks, and tradeoffs to engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
Demonstrated investment in teammates' growth through proactive mentorship, architectural feedback, and code reviews, along with experience improving team processes, tooling, or technical standards.
Offensive security and software engineering background with a strong passion for turning security research into safe, maintainable product capabilities.
OSCP (or OSEP, CRTO, or equivalent offensive certifications).
Experience researching and implementing attacks against SCCM, Windows Admin Center, and other modern Windows management-plane attack surfaces.
Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and working with relational (Postgres) and graph (Neo4j) databases.
Experience developing or contributing to offensive tooling like BloodHound, Impacket, netexec, etc.
Hands-on experience with graph databases (Neo4j) and attack-path analysis, including extending models to represent new identity and privilege relationships.
Experience integrating security research into production, multi-tenant SaaS, with attention to testing, reliability, and customer safety.
Public contributions to the field: open-source tools, technical blog posts, conference talks, or published CVEs.
Experience building production-safe autonomous or automated offensive tooling, including applying AI/LLM technologies to enhance attack workflows.
