Senior Software Developer
Join a team of world class researchers and developers that focuses on vulnerability research and exploit development.
Have a real impact on offensive security covering everything from smartphones to cars in a low friction environment
Senior Software Developer - Offensive Security
Locations: Basingstoke
Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience
Currently recruiting for a Senior Software Developer to join a highly respected offensive security team working at the cutting edge of vulnerability research.
This is a rare opportunity to work side by side with world-class vulnerability researchers, building complex software that interacts deeply with real-world platforms to deliver genuine security impact.
The Role
As a Senior Software Developer, you'll be developing robust, high-quality software in unusual and challenging environments, with a strong focus on offensive security. Your work will directly support vulnerability research across a wide range of platforms.
Key responsibilities include:
- Delivering robustly engineered products in unconventional environments
- Reverse engineering software internals
- Reimplementing system internals to expose unintended functionality
- Deep diving into the architecture of complex and unusual systems
Key skills include:
- Have strong experience in professional software development and secure development practices
- Be comfortable working in a multi-disciplinary team of researchers and developers
- Be eligible to hold UK DV clearance
- High-level languages such as Python
- Low-level languages such as C and Rust
- Assembly language or low-level architecture internals
- Developing offensive security / red team tooling
- System internals of platforms such as Windows, Linux, Android and iOS
- Automated build systems such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins or GitHub Actions
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