💼 Full-Time Position

WAF Adversarial Engineer

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SGA Inc.
📍 Seattle, Washington, United States
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Location
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Posted
May 13, 2026
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Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a WAF Adversarial Engineer for a contract assignment with one of our premier SaaS clients in Seattle, WA. Will also consider remote candidates residing in PST.



Responsibilities:

  • Run adversarial test campaigns against our WAF stack (Akamai, AWS WAF, Fastly, and Cloudflare) after each rule update cycle.

  • Target encoding evasion, HTTP parsing differentials between WAF and origin, request smuggling, chunked encoding manipulation, multipart boundary abuse, Unicode normalization gaps, and logic layer bypasses.

  • Build and maintain a versioned WAF bypass library, organized by vulnerability class (SQLi, XSS, SSRF, path traversal, SSTI, etc.), validated against staging and production WAF configurations, and updated as platforms and rules evolve.

  • Cond...