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Senior Offensive Security Engineer

A financial technology company providing helpful, easy, and free core banking services to help people achieve financial progress.
$157,590 - $218,900
Security
Senior Software Engineer
Hybrid
4+ years of experience
Finance · Cybersecurity

Job Description

Chime, a leading fintech company, is seeking a Senior Offensive Security Engineer to build and lead their Offensive Security program. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of cybersecurity and financial technology, where you'll be responsible for identifying and testing security vulnerabilities across Chime's infrastructure. The position combines technical expertise in offensive security with leadership opportunities, allowing you to make a significant impact on the company's security posture.

The role involves conducting sophisticated red team exercises, developing custom security tools, and working closely with various teams to improve security across the organization. You'll be part of a small, dedicated security team that tackles challenging problems and contributes to the broader security community through public blogs and conference presentations.

As a Senior Offensive Security Engineer, you'll be instrumental in protecting Chime's financial services platform, which serves millions of customers. The position offers competitive compensation ($157,590 - $218,900), comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to work in a hybrid environment at their San Francisco office. This is an ideal role for security professionals who are passionate about offensive security, enjoy solving complex problems, and want to make a meaningful impact in the fintech industry.

The role requires deep expertise in cloud security, red teaming, and custom tool development, with opportunities to grow both technically and professionally. You'll work in a collaborative environment that values innovation, problem-solving, and a strong security culture, while helping to protect and advance Chime's mission of making financial services more accessible and secure for everyone.

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Responsibilities For Senior Offensive Security Engineer

  • Independently manage complete red team exercises
  • Partner with Engineering, Product, IT, and other business functions to drive security improvement
  • Research emerging attack vectors, vulnerabilities and techniques
  • Develop custom payloads and exploits
  • Emulate adversaries by attacking web applications, cloud platforms and supporting services
  • Collaborate with detection engineers to build high fidelity alerting
  • Participate in purple-team exercises to mature the security program

Requirements For Senior Offensive Security Engineer

Kubernetes
  • 4+ years of combined experience in offensive security, red teaming, or application security role
  • Experience in conducting surreptitious cloud based attacks
  • Experience with developing custom tools and payloads which bypass defensive products
  • Ability to perform unsupervised red team engagements
  • Ability to explain vulnerabilities and weaknesses to non-technical stakeholders
  • Nice to have: OSCP, OSCE, OSEE, CRTO, GRTP certifications

Benefits For Senior Offensive Security Engineer

401k
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Parental Leave
Commuter Benefits
  • Competitive salary
  • 401k match
  • Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
  • Generous vacation policy and company-wide Chime Days
  • Annual wellness stipend
  • Up to 24 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents
  • 12 weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
  • $15k lifetime reimbursement for family planning
  • Backup child, elder, and pet care
  • Subsidized commuter benefit
  • In-office and virtual team events

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