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

If this Senior Software Developer role sounds of interest please contact nicktrussler@spectrumit.co.uk for more information

Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.