Senior Security Engineer - Pentester

Menlo Security's https://www.menlosecurity.com/ mission is enabling the world to connect, communicate and collaborate securely without compromise. COVID-19 has made our mission all the more real. We support customers across various enterprises including Fortune 500 companies, 9/10 of the largest global banks and the Department of Defense.

The world has fundamentally changed. We are growing from 400 employees into the next phase of our journey, and we need passionate talent filled with empathy and agility. The right candidate for the job is ethical, hyper-organized, fanatical about seeing things through to completion, service-oriented, and humble enough to take feedback and coaching yet confident enough to provide feedback and coaching.

Menlo is well-funded for growth and our investors are second to none. They include Vista Equity Partners (“Vista http://www.vistaequitypartners.com/?utm_source=vistapressrelease&utm_campaign=menlosecurity”), General Catalyst, JPMC, American Express, HSBC, and Ericsson Ventures.

SUMMARY

We're looking for a forward-thinking Security Engineer to join our security team, focused on offensive and defensive testing, penetration testing of product features, and the cloud architecture behind the product. You'll operate across a complex multi-cloud environment (AWS & GCP) spanning traditional VMs and modern managed and unmanaged container-based architectures, partnering with fellow Penetration Testing and Cloud Security engineers to run targeted assessments during the testing window immediately before each release. The role reaches beyond the application layer into the Control Plane, reviewing cloud configurations, IAM policies, and orchestration layers against security baselines, and extends to the frontline of external defense by triaging bug bounty submissions and outside vulnerability reports. AI and large language models are core to how this team works day to day — you'll use them to accelerate reconnaissance, generate attack vecto...