Aquanow, a leading infrastructure and liquidity provider that provides institutional and enterprise application platforms for digital assets, is looking for a Staff Offensive Security Engineer to join our security team. This is a unique opportunity to work alongside a highly-experienced team and contribute to the development of a high-growth trading and technology company. Plan and execute red team operations, adversarial simulations, and penetration tests across applications, infrastructure, networks, offices, and internal processes.
Perform threat modeling for new and existing services, clearly articulating security risks and tradeoffs to engineering and risk stakeholders.
Conduct vulnerability research, exploit development, and testing using both custom tooling and public proof-of-concept techniques.
Write and maintain tooling to automate and scale offensive security assessments.
8+ years of hands-on experience in red teaming, offensive security, or penetration testing.
~ Demonstrated experience mentoring or guiding other security engineers.
~ Experience testing contemporary environments, including cloud platforms (AWS, GCP), containerized systems (Docker, Kubernetes), CI pipelines, and identity systems.
~ Working knowledge of defensive security tools such as IDS/IPS, EDR, packet capture, and network monitoring, including common evasion techniques.
~ Proficiency in Python, Go, or JavaScript for exploit development, tooling, or automation.
~ Experience collaborating with distributed teams and documenting work through tools such as Slack, Jira, GitHub, and email.
~ Automation experience with AWS. Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Security - Specialty, CEH are highly desirable.
Experience in a global fast moving environment covering multiple time zones.
Familiarity with common security vulnerabilities and the ability to judge their severity and impact on the business.
Passion in all things security.
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📌 Staff Offensive Security Engineer (India)
🏢 Aquanow
📍 India