Senior Offensive Security Engineer

About The Role

We are seeking a Senior Security Engineer to build and lead our Offensive Security program. In this role, you will attack Chime’s services, applications, and infrastructure to discover security issues and report them to our internal technology teams. This position will offer you the opportunity to grow your technical and leadership skills while being part of a collaborative and dynamic team that finds joy in problem-solving and innovating together at Chime.

The ideal candidate will be an offensive cybersecurity professional with a passion for analyzing codebases, testing hypotheses, and designing tools to impact web applications and their infrastructure. This Engineer will work closely with teams throughout Information Security, as well as provide technical leadership and advice to teams and leaders throughout Chime. You will be in direct contact with teams in a variety of business verticals, giving you first hand knowledge about how Chime is built and how it operates at a deep, technical level.

Additionally, you will leverage the knowledge you gain about Chime to find new ways to break services, processes, and infrastructure throughout the company. We're a small, dedicated team that’s always thinking of innovative ways to tackle challenging security problems. We take on ambitious projects that have a significant impact on our members and help build a strong security culture within our company.

The team encourages discussing the problems we are solving, the methods we use, and celebrating our accomplishments through public blogs and at conferences. If these resonate with the way you work, we'd love to hear from you. The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $181,000 and up to $250,000.

Benefits

. The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills,

Qualifications

, and experience. In this role, you can expect to Independently manage complete red team exercises. ) Collaborate closely with detection engineers to build high fidelity alerting based on emerging attack vectors and tactics, techniques and procedures Participate in purple-team exercises to mature the security program To thrive in this role, you have 4+ years of combined experience in either an offensive security, red teaming, or application security role.

Nice To Have

) Relevant certifications: OSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional), OSCE (Offensive Security Certified Expert) and OSEE (Offensive Security Exploitation Expert), Certified Red Team Operator (CRTO), GIAC Red Team Professional certification (GRTP) #LI-Hybrid #LI-JL1 A little about us At Chime, we believe that everyone can achieve financial progress. We created Chime—a financial technology company, not a bank*—on the premise that core banking services should be helpful, easy, and free. Through our user-friendly tools and intuitive platforms, we empower our members to take control of their finances and work towards their goals.