--- title: 'Offensive Security Engineer at Praetorian' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/offensive-security-engineer-praetorian-austin-texas-1730ydea225m' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Offensive Security Engineer at Praetorian - **Company:** Praetorian - **Location:** Austin Texas, United States - **Posted:** 2025-01-30 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://www.praetorian.com/careers/?gh_jid=6324471003#job-opening ## Job description We Are Praetorian Praetorian is defined by raw intensity, fearless candor, and a relentless drive. This is who we are. We are looking for high-performing, mission-aligned individuals. We prioritize performance over politics and purpose over transaction. This environment is built for those who seek ownership and impact. Is Praetorian the right fit for you? If you are someone who obsesses over the problem, defaults to open communication, and wants to work with a team that refuses to accept mediocrity—then you have found your home. The Mission Praetorian is an expert-driven offensive security company. Our mission is to prevent breaches before they occur. We help organizations shift from an "assume breach" mentality to adopting offensive security as a core strategy of prevention. We don’t just find bugs; we solve the root cause. We are building a future without compromise, and we need people who run toward the fire. ## Who We Are Looking For We are looking for an Offensive Security Engineer who operates with clear ownership. You’re not just filling a seat. You’re setting the standard. You believe great execution brings strategy to life. ## How You Operate You bring mission-driven grit to every challenge, running toward hard problems rather than away from it. You prioritize customer outcomes over internal processes and choose truth and clarity over performative politeness. We look for builders with a bias for action—people who own the fix when things break, share credit with the team, and possess the intellectual humility to care more about getting to the right answer than being right. How are you using AI today in your current role? What specific tools are you using? If applicable, show us your last AI experiment. ## What You Will Own - Own the Outcome: Execute challenging security projects for our PS and MSP customers, ensuring technical precision and successfully resolving complex client needs. - Take Accountability: Be accountable for the success of unique engagements by developing custom methodologies, payloads, exploits, and tools when off-the-shelf solutions aren't enough. - Raise the Bar: Continuously improve the bridge between services and product by identifying vulnerability trends in the field and translating them into tangible improvements. - Drive Impact: Proactively develop new Chariot capabilities based on the specific security vulnerabilities identified during PS security projects. - Scale Expertise: Aggressively learn as much as possible about the industry and offensive security landscape to ensure the team remains on the bleeding edge of tradecraft. ## What You Bring - The Foundation: A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics, backed by 0–2 years of experience or relevant internships in cybersecurity, startups, or high-tech environments. - Technical Fluency: You have experience writing software or scripts using common offensive security languages, specifically Go (Golang), Python, PowerShell, or Bash. - Domain Expertise: You have early experience or a demonstrated passion for Product Security (App/Mobile/LLM), Cloud Security (AWS/Azure/GCP), Web/Network Penetration Testing, Red Teaming, or IoT/Embedded Security. - Offensive Security Mindset: You don't just work 9-to-5; you compete. You have notable achievements in CTFs (CCDC, CPTC) or on testing platforms like Hack The Box, TryHackMe, or PortSwigger. - The "Plus One" Edge: You go beyond the basics with verifiable contributions to vulnerability research (CVEs), exploit development, or open-source offsec projects. Familiarity with AI prompt engineering for tool/payload generation is a strong plus. - Certifications: You hold or are actively pursuing industry-recognized certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, PNPT, BSCP, OSWE, or relevant cloud certifications. If This Position Is Wildly Successful, In One Year You Will Have: - Delivered high-impact findings across multiple engagement types — red team operations, application security assessments, cloud security reviews — that materially improved clients' security posture and drove repeat engagements - Developed custom methodologies, payloads, exploits, and tools that solved problems off-the-shelf solutions couldn't, advancing the team's offensive capabilities and contributing to Praetorian's reputation for technical excellence - Produced clear, actionable reports that resonated with both technical practitioners and executive stakeholders — driving remediation, building client trust, and reinforcing Praetorian's credibility in the field - Contributed meaningfully to Guard's capabilities by identifying recurring vulnerability trends in the field and translating them into tangible platform improvements that scale your impact beyond individual engagements - Integrated AI tooling into your offensive workflows — using it to automate reconnaissance, accelerate payload development, and move faster through complex environments without sacrificing depth or precision - Demonstrated versatility across the threat landscape — from traditional infrastructure and web applications to cloud-native environments and AI/ML systems — reflecting the evolving nature of modern attack surfaces - Contributed research, blog posts, or conference presentations that elevated Praetorian's thought leadership in the offensive security community - Mentored junior engineers and contributed to a culture of continuous learning, raising the technical floor across the team through your example and your investment in the people around you Why Praetorian? We offer a culture built on high performance and deep ownership. - Elite Talent: Work alongside the top 1% of the industry—composed exclusively of high performers who raise the bar. - Our DNA: We are defined by action, grit, and uncompromising transparency. We move fast, take on hard problems, and choose clarity over comfort—because that’s how meaningful work gets done. - Impact: Your work directly protects the world's most critical organizations. Want to go deeper? Explore our[New Hire Survival Guide](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://www.praetorian.com/new-hire-survival-guide) to dive into Praetorian's mission, vision, values, and culture. ## About Praetorian ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Praetorian is an offensive cybersecurity company that helps enterprises identify exploitable vulnerabilities through human-validated, AI-driven attack simulations and continuous exposure management. - **Entity Type**: Private - **Headquarters**: Not publicly available - **Founded**: Not publicly available - **Founders**: Nathan Sportsman (CEO) ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: Offensive cybersecurity, penetration testing, attack surface management, continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) - Target customers: B2B, Fortune 500 enterprises, government and regulated industries (FDA, GLBA, HIPAA, NERC, NYDFS, MAS TRM, PCI‑DSS) - Mission or purpose statement: "Prevent breaches before they occur" – create a future without compromise. ## Products & Services - **Praetorian Guard Platform**: An AI offensive security engine combining agentic AI, workflow automation, and offensive capabilities to identify exploitable vulnerabilities and guide remediation. Includes attack path mapping, continuous penetration testing, attack surface management, vulnerability management, breach & attack simulation, and cyber threat intelligence. - **Professional Services (Penetration Testing)**: - Web Application, Mobile, and API Security Assessments - External/Internal Network Penetration Testing, Network Segmentation Testing - Cloud Configuration Review, Cloud Penetration Testing, Cloud Attack Path Mapping, CI/CD Assessment - Hardware Penetration Testing, Cryptographic/Protocol Analysis, Software Reverse Engineering, AI/LLM Security Assessment, Thick Client Testing - **Red Team Services**: Advanced red team operations, assumed breach exercises, purple team exercises, social engineering. - **Chariot (Managed CTEM Platform)**: An always-on managed service that combines attack surface management, vulnerability management, breach & attack simulation, continuous penetration testing, and exploit intelligence into a single unified platform. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available - **Key Metric**: Not publicly available (private company) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available - **Growth Signals**: Claims 70% faster MTTR, 25-50% spend reduction by consolidating security tools, and zero false positives through human validation. Serves Fortune 500 clients. ## Competitive Advantages - **Zero false positives**: Every finding is human-verified by elite offensive security engineers. - **Material-risk focus**: Proves exploitability, not just theoretical vulnerabilities. - **AI-driven scale**: Combines automation with veteran human expertise for continuous coverage. - **Elite talent**: Describes its people as the top 1% – computer scientists, engineers, and industry-recognized researchers. - **Offense Informs Defense**: Every engagement strengthens detection and response capabilities. ## Strategic Focus - **Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM)**: Moving beyond traditional point-in-time tests to always-on, validated exposure management. - **AI & Automation**: Deepening the use of agentic AI and workflow automation in the Praetorian Guard platform to scale offensive security. - **Consolidation**: Helping enterprises replace multiple point solutions (ASM, VM, CTI, BAS, annual pen tests) with a single platform. ## Why Work Here - **Engineering culture**: "Powered by an engineering culture" – services professionals are security engineers, not consultants. Emphasis on real work, real value. - **High bar for talent**: Hiring philosophy prioritizes values alignment, passion for security, cognitive capabilities, and task-relevant experience (in that order). - **Thorough interview process**: Includes a culture assessment (DISC), logic puzzle, hands-on technical labs, and a final CEO interview focused on vision and alignment. - **Culture values**: Humility, default to open, "yes, and" collaboration, passion for impact ("make craters"), and performance focus ("10X not 10%"). - **Remote/hybrid policy**: Not specified on the careers page. - **Notable perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the company emphasizes challenging work with the industry’s best talent and a mission-driven environment. ## Sources 1. [praetorian.com](https://www.praetorian.com/) 2. [praetorian.com/careers/](https://www.praetorian.com/careers/) 3. [praetorian.com/praetorian-overview/](https://www.praetorian.com/praetorian-overview/) 4. 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