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Principal Security Engineer
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Remote, USA
Full-time
Senior · 6+ years experience
Remote
USD 165600-296400 yearly / year
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Required/minimum qualifications
- Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years experience in security or related field OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years experience in security or related field OR equivalent experience.
Other requirements
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. • Customer environment screening: Operators working in customer environments may be required to complete additional customer- or government-directed vetting.
Additional or preferred qualifications
- Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years experience in security or related field OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 12+ years experience in security or related field OR equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of experience planning and leading red team or adversary emulation operations against enterprise or cloud environments.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience building, directing, or operating AI-driven or agentic offensive security tooling in real operations. Active U.S. Government TS//SCI clearance with full-scope polygraph is a strong plus, enabling immediate work with our most sensitive customers.
- 8+ years of experience identifying and exploiting security vulnerabilities across cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP), identity (Entra ID / Active Directory), Windows and Linux endpoints, network, and hardware.
- Experience designing multi-agent or autonomous systems using large language models – orchestration frameworks, tool use, agent evaluation, and safety guardrails – applied to offensive security.
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