Altruist
Senior Application Security Engineer (Red Team)
Los Angeles, CA · Senior
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About the role
- If you're passionate about challenging the status quo and want to do the most important work of your life, we'd love to meet you!
- We embrace, and encourage healthy debate and diverse perspectives.
- We approach conflict openly, honestly, and respectfully.
Responsibilities
- Break security controls continuously so we can build them better each time.
- Perform focused authorization and exploitability assessments on high-risk attack paths
- Run purple-team exercises with Detection & Response and help build detections from your tradecraft.
- Develop and maintain offensive tooling and repeatable testing playbooks; contribute to phishing and social-engineering assessments.
- Document findings with reproducible proofs-of-concept, clear risk ratings, and actionable remediation guidance.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience working as an Application/Product Security Engineer:
- Extensive experience with security assessments
- Experience with tools such as Burp Suite
- 4+ years of experience working as an
- A B.A. / B.S. degree in relevant fields such as Computer Science or Computer Engineering or Information Security or relevant experience
Compensation
- Los Angeles, CA salary range
- $170,000 - $225,000 USD
Company info
- We're looking for exceptional talent to help us achieve our mission of making financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all.
- But first, our values Kindness - Kindness doesn't just equal niceness.
- Grit - When challenges arise, we stay laser focused on achieving our mission and finding a way forward, even when it's hard.
- We are proud of the culture we've built and are cognizant of the ever-changing professional landscape.
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