Senior Offensive Security Engineer
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

As a Senior Offensive Security Engineer at Meraki, you will you will be responsible for identifying security vulnerabilities in hardware, software, and embedded firmware of pre-release products, post-release updates, 3rd party code, and server environments. You will partner with the Manager of Offensive Security to help shape our road map and guide the whole organization further along our security journey.

Key responsibilities:

* Collaborate with Software Engineers across product teams to continually add security refinements to our firmware design, development, and deployment practices
* Monitor emerging trends in offensive and defensive security techniques and proactively work to improve Meraki products
* Perform threat modeling and security assessment engagements
* Perform penetration testing, design and code reviews of our Meraki product offerings
* Perform Social Engineering focused assessments
* Perform Wireless and Network assessments in enterprise infrastructure
* Planning and building proof of concepts and demonstrations for specific solutions

You are an ideal candidate if you have:

* 4-8 years of direct experience as a penetration tester or part of an offensive security team
* Ability to design and execute automated penetration testing modules to detect vulnerabilities during build time, coming up with innovative ways
* to integrate security into the SDLC
* Penetration testing experience with cloud, embedded Linux, or mobile applications (iOS or Android) preferred
* Ability to explain complex security problems and expert advice on secure design
* Strong communication skills, particularly written communication

Bonus points for:

* Comfortable using source-level debuggers, hardware/JTAG debuggers, network protocol analyzers, or logic analyzers to diagnose problems at all layers of the system
* Have experience reading schematics and data sheets
* Certifications such as OSCP, OSCE, GPEN, CEH, CISSP (but not required)

About Meraki:

At Meraki we are driven by the desire to make managing sophisticated networks simple. Our firmware combined with a web-based dashboard allows customers to manage enterprise scale networks using a simple point and click interface. We are passionate about building real products that our customers love. We believe in fostering a positive culture by hiring, coaching, and empowering smart, helpful, humble people. With the support of management, we constantly look within for ways to improve organizationally. Finally, we maintain a positive relationship with Cisco that gives us the stability and resources of a larger company without sacrificing our startup vibe-including an awesome office overlooking the Bay Bridge, stocked full of food and drinks.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.