Description
We're hiring an Offensive Security Engineer to join our internal red team at Nebius. You'll design and execute adversarial simulations across our cloud platform, attacking the same infrastructure our customers depend on, and translate findings into measurable security improvements.
Responsibilities
- Validate and extend early-stage Secure SDLC threat models via continuous penetration testing, assessing threat severity and mitigation status while challenging assumptions made during threat modeling and system development.
- Automate routine validations to keep pace with increasing feature flow, reserving manual analysis for genuinely complex cases.
- Plan and execute full-scoped red team engagements against Nebius cloud platform - including compute, storage, inference, networking, orchestration layers, and internal tooling.
- Identify threats that can impact an organization's operations.
- Work closely with Detection & Response and other security engineering teams to run purple team exercises, validate detection coverage, and close gaps collaboratively.
- Research novel attacks against GPU infrastructure, the inference stack, and AI platform managed services.
- Assess tenant-isolation boundaries and how they can be broken at the low-level stack.
- Conduct targeted assessments of new products and infrastructure changes before they ship.
- Deliver clear, actionable reports for both technical audiences and leadership - with prioritized findings and remediation guidance.
- Establish red team processes, tooling, and a methodology that scales as the platform grows.
Requirements
- 6+ years in offensive security - penetration testing, red teaming, or adversary simulation.
- Deep experience attacking cloud-native environments: Kubernetes privilege escalation, cloud IAM abuse, virtualization and container escapes.
- Strong fundamentals across the attack lifecycle: initial access, persistence, lateral movement, data exfiltration.
- Proficiency developing custom tooling and post-exploitation capabilities (Python, Go, or similar).
- Experience running purple team exercises and working constructively with blue teams.
- Ability to write clear, senior-level reports with business-contextualized risk.
Nice to Have
- Experience attacking ML infrastructure, model serving pipelines, or GPU clusters.
- Reverse engineering and exploits development experience.
- Application security experience.
- Familiarity with eBPF bypass techniques or kernel-level exploitation.
- Background in vulnerability research or CVE discovery.
- Experience with cloud provider internals (hypervisor/networking layers).
- Presenting security research at conferences like BlackHat/DefCon.
Why This Role at Nebius
- Attack surface that's genuinely novel - GPU clusters, AI platforms, multi-tenant cloud at scale.
- Work alongside world-class engineers on infrastructure that powers frontier AI.
- Competitive compensation with equity upside in a Nasdaq-listed, high-growth company.
- Flexible, remote-first culture.