# Security Engineer, Red Team

**Company:** [Whatnot](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-companies/whatnot)
**Location:** Remote (US)
**Work mode:** Remote
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Salary:** USD 210K–290K/yr
**Category:** Security
**Listed:** 2026-11-06

[View and apply on Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/whatnot/security-engineer-red-team-121032)

## What you'll do

- Plan and run authorized red team operations across cloud and apps
- Build and maintain AI-assisted testing harnesses and agent loops
- Red team AI systems for prompt injection and supply chain risks
- Run purple team exercises and tune detections based on results
- Write clear findings and track remediation to closure

## What you need

- 3+ yrs in offensive security, red teaming, or penetration testing
- Strong Python programming skills with custom tooling experience
- Hands-on experience building LLM-powered workflows or agents
- Deep knowledge of cloud security, identity, or Kubernetes
- Working knowledge of AI-specific risks like prompt injection

## Job description

### **🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!**

Whatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. Whether it's trading cards, fashion, electronics, or live plants, our sellers are building real businesses across hundreds of categories. We're building live commerce at a scale that's never been done in the West, and there's no playbook to copy. The people here are shaping how an entirely new industry develops.

As a remote co-located team, we're inspired by our [values](https://www.whatnot.com/careers#principles) and anchored in hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia. We move fast, stay close to our users, and focus on the work that drives the most impact.

We're one of the [fastest growing marketplaces](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/business/dealbook/whatnot-livestream-shopping-fundraise.html) and were recently named the [#1 Best Startup Employer in America](https://www.forbes.com/lists/americas-best-startup-employers/) by Forbes. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our [news](https://blog.teamwhatnot.com/) and [engineering blogs](https://medium.com/whatnot-engineering) and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce.

### **💻 Role**

-   Plan and run authorized red team operations across cloud (AWS), Kubernetes, networks, identity systems, SaaS, and internal applications, under written rules of engagement.
    
-   Build and maintain AI-assisted testing harnesses: agent loops that run recon, attack-path discovery, fuzzing, and exploit validation with logging, scoping controls, and human approval gates.
    
-   Use LLMs and agentic tools to speed up vulnerability research, payload and test-case generation, code review, and report drafting, and measure where they help and where they mislead.
    
-   Red team our own AI systems: prompt injection, tool and connector abuse, data exfiltration, model and agent permission boundaries, and supply chain risk in AI dependencies.
    
-   Emulate realistic adversaries using MITRE ATT&CK and ATLAS, chaining findings into end-to-end attack paths rather than isolated bugs.
    
-   Run purple team exercises with detection engineering and incident response, and tune detections based on what your tests evade.
    
-   Write clear findings with reproduction steps, impact, and recommended fixes; track remediation to closure and retest.
    
-   Automate regression tests so fixed weaknesses stay fixed, and feed results into CI/CD pipelines.
    
-   Document and share techniques, tooling, and lessons learned with engineering teams.
    
-   Work collaboratively with Whatnot’s Blue Team on Purple Team engagements to help strengthen Whatnot’s overall security posture.
    

### **👋 You**

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that low ego, a growth mindset, and leaning into action and high impact goes a long way here.

As our next Red Team Engineer you’ll find weaknesses in our infrastructure before real attackers do. You will use AI tools and agents to scale offensive testing, build the harnesses that run it, and turn findings into fixes across cloud, network, application, identity and CI/CD layers.

-   3+ years in offensive security, red teaming, or penetration testing, with real engagements against production-scale environments.
    
-   Strong programming skills in Python; you write your own tooling instead of only running others.
    
-   Hands-on experience building LLM-powered workflows or agents (tool use, orchestration, evaluation, guardrails), not just prompting a chat window.
    
-   Deep knowledge of at least two areas: cloud security and IAM abuse, Active Directory or identity attacks, Kubernetes and container escapes, web and API exploitation, CI/CD and supply chain attacks.
    
-   Working knowledge of AI-specific risks: prompt injection, insecure tool use, data leakage, excessive agent permissions, and model supply chain issues.
    
-   Sound judgment on scope, safety, and blast radius; you know how to test production-adjacent systems without causing outages.
    
-   Clear written communication: reports an engineer can act on and an executive can skim.
    

### **🎁 Benefits**

-   Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
    
-   Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
    
-   Work From Home Support
    
-   Care benefits
    
-   Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
    
-   Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
    
-   Parental Leave
    

**Please note: Whatnot will only contact you through official @whatnot.com email addresses. If you see an email impersonating a Whatnot recruiter, please disregard and report it as spam.**

### **💛 EOE**

Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.

$210K – $290K • Offers Equity

The salary or hourly rate range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary or hourly rate will be based on a number of factors including, level, relevant prior experience, skills, and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary or hourly rate, not benefits or equity.

## Other open roles at Whatnot

- [Trust & Risk Agent](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/whatnot/trust-risk-agent-121033) — Dublin, Ireland
- [Risk Strategist](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/whatnot/risk-strategist-120739) — San Francisco, CA / New York, NY / Los Angeles, CA / Seattle, WA / Remote (US)
- [Engineering Manager](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/whatnot/engineering-manager-120738) — New York, NY / San Francisco, CA / Seattle, WA / Remote (US)
- [Staff Software Engineer, Fulfillment Expansion](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/whatnot/staff-software-engineer-fulfillment-expansion-120274) — San Francisco, CA / New York, NY / Seattle, WA / Remote (US)
- [Research Associate](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/whatnot/research-associate-119414) — Remote (US)

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