{"id":2044822,"url":"https://alion.io/job/horizon3-seniorstaff-attack-engineer-rapid-response","title":"Senior/Staff Attack Engineer, Rapid Response","company":{"id":3088,"name":"Horizon3","domain":"horizon3.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/horizon3","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":76,"open_postings":17,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.941,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":39,"computed_at":"2026-10-19T05:45:15Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"posting_text","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":230000,"max":275000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":275000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"CVE","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Active Directory","optional":true},{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"Azure","optional":true},{"name":"GCP","optional":true},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true},{"name":"Microsoft Entra ID","optional":true},{"name":"Okta","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-07T18:04:28Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-07","last_verified_at":"2026-10-19T20:01:40Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":12,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":12},"description":"Get to Know Us\nHorizon3 is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company dedicated to the mission of enabling organizations to proactively find and fix and verify exploitable attack vectors before criminals exploit them. Our flagship product, the NodeZeroTM platform, delivers production-safe autonomous pentests and other key assessment operations that scale across the largest internal, external, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments. NodeZero has been adopted by organizations of all sizes, from small educational institutions to government agencies and Global 100 enterprises. It is used by ITOps/SecOps teams, consulting pentesters, and MSSPs and MSPs.\nWe are a fusion of former U.S. Special Operations cyber operators, startup engineers, and formerly frustrated cybersecurity practitioners. We're committed to helping solve our common security problems: ineffective security tools, false positives resulting in alert fatigue, blind spots, \"checkbox” security culture, cybersecurity skills shortage, and the long lead time and expense of hiring outside consultants. Collectively, we are a team of learn it alls, committed to a culture of respect, collaboration, ownership, and results.\nSummary\nWe are hiring a Staff Attack Engineer to join the team behind our Rapid Response product. You will research and productize real-world exploitation techniques so customers can quickly understand whether newly disclosed or actively exploited vulnerabilities affect their environments-and what an attacker could do next.\nYou will focus on high-consequence vulnerabilities that are actively exploited, newly disclosed, or likely to generate significant attention - from CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEVs) and Zero-Days to N-Days and emerging attack techniques. You will turn vulnerability research and attacker tradecraft into safe, repeatable, automated attack capabilities for the issues that are in the news, creating urgent customer concern, or most likely to affect the broader security community. This is not a traditional consulting or manual-pentesting role. Your work will help\nsecurity teams rapidly validate exposure, prioritize remediation, and verify that defenses are working.\nWhat You’ll Do\nResearch and reproduce high-consequence vulnerabilities across enterprise networks, applications, identity systems, cloud environments, and infrastructure-including CISA KEVs, CVEs, N-Days, and Zero-Days.\n\nStudy attacker tactics, techniques, procedures, and campaigns observed in the wild, including tradecraft not tied to a single CVE.\n\nTurn vulnerability research and real-world attacker behavior into safe, repeatable proof-of-exploit capabilities, attack paths, and automated modules for Rapid Response and NodeZero.\n\nDemonstrate realistic impact-including privilege escalation, credential access, lateral movement, persistence, and data access-without unnecessary disruption.\n\nValidate remediation and containment by safely retesting vulnerabilities and security controls.\n\nImprove execution speed, reliability, observability, and evidence quality while collaborating with research, product, and engineering teams.\n\nWhat You Bring\nStrong Python and software engineering skills, including experience building, testing, and operating production-quality tooling.\n\nSolid penetration testing, vulnerability research, and exploit-development fundamentals.\n\nHands-on experience with enterprise networks, applications, identity systems, cloud environments, or endpoint security.\n\nDemonstrated ability to reproduce vulnerabilities and convert manual techniques into reliable automation.\n\nUnderstanding of common attack chains, trust boundaries, authentication and authorization, privilege escalation, and lateral movement.\n\nAbility to balance speed, safety, reliability, coverage, and actionable evidence.\n\nCuriosity about how attackers exploit newly disclosed vulnerabilities and how defenders can validate exposure quickly.\n\nStrong ownership, judgment, and communication skills in ambiguous or time-sensitive situations.\n\nNice to Have\nExperience with CISA KEVs, CVE analysis, N-Day research, Zero-Day research, or responsible disclosure.\n\nBackground in incident response, threat hunting, purple teaming, or security operations.\n\nExperience with AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta, or hybrid environments.\n\nExperience with exploit development, reverse engineering, malware analysis, or vulnerability research.\n\nContributions to security research, CVEs, conference talks, open-source tools, or technical publications.\n\nCTF experience or equivalent hands-on offensive security practice.\n\nBachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.\n\nOSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional) or equivalent certifications.\n\nTravel Required\nWe are a fully remote company, and this job may require up to 10% of travel to be successful.\nPerks of Horizon3\nInclusive Team: We value diversity and promote an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive.\n\nGrowth Opportunities: Be part of a dynamic and growing team with numerous career development opportunities.\n\nInnovative Culture: Work in a collaborative environment that encourages creativity and out-of-the-box thinking.\n\nHybrid & Remote Work: We embrace a mix of remote and hybrid work models depending on role and location, including our Chicago office, where some roles require regular in-office presence.\n\nCompetitive Compensation: We offer competitive salary, equity and benefits. Our benefits include health, vision & dental insurance for you and your family, a flexible vacation policy, and generous parental leave.\n\nCompensation and Values\nAt Horizon3, we believe that our people are our greatest asset, and our compensation philosophy reflects this core value. We are committed to fostering an environment where all employees feel valued, respected, and rewarded for their contributions. Our compensation structure is designed to be fair, competitive, and transparent, ensuring that every team member is recognized and compensated equitably across roles, levels, and locations.\nIn accordance with various State’s transparency regulations, we provide the following salary range information for this position:\nBase salary range: $230,000 - $275,000 annually. The exact salary will be determined based on the selected candidate’s location, qualifications, experience, and relevant skills.\n\nAdditional compensation: All full-time roles are eligible for an equity package in the form of stock options.\n\nYou Belong Here\nHorizon3 is not just an equal opportunity employer - we are a community that values diversity, equity, and inclusion as fundamental principles of our culture and success. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace where everyone feels welcome and respected, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status by law.\nOur commitment to diversity and inclusion means we strive to attract, develop, and retain a workforce that reflects the varied communities we serve. We believe that diverse perspectives drive innovation and strengthen our ability to create cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions. At Horizon3, every team member is valued and supported in an environment that encourages personal and professional growth.\nWe welcome candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we encourage all qualified individuals to apply. Come be a part of Horizon3, where your unique contributions are recognized, and your potential is limitless.\nOther Duties\nPlease note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.\nApplication Note\nIn any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. 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