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🥝 WAF Adversarial Engineer

SGA Inc. | Seattle, Washington, United States | Posted May 13, 2026

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...

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