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Lead Security Engineer

Lead Security Engineer

CompanySalesforce
LocationPalo Alto, CA, USA, Seattle, WA, USA, San Francisco, CA, USA, Bellevue, WA, USA, Atlanta, GA, USA
Salary$184000 – $276100
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • Strong experience in Information Security centric roles, devising strategies and building controls to counter advanced and constantly evolving threats.
  • Ability to envision a variety of Security Incident scenarios that could impact a customer and take an empathetic approach to developing detections to aid customers
  • Ability to query large amounts of data to investigate anomalous activity and deploy detections to surface similar activity when it occurs in other customer workspaces
  • Experience understanding Threat Actor Tactics, Techniques & Procedures (TTPs) and able to build detections to detect such TTPs
  • Experience working in a security function, particularly Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR), Threat Detection and/or Threat Hunting background.
  • Ability to clearly and patiently articulate Threats and Threat Actor activity to Product Managers, Customer Experience teams, and other Engineers
  • Ability to collaborate with a variety of stakeholders like Customer Success teams, peers in Product Security team, Product Managers, Platform Trust and Integrity teams to service the customers
  • Expertise in high-level programming languages, particularly Python or Go. Ability to write efficient SQL queries and dig out relevant information.
  • Enthusiastic in automating repetitive tasks and embracing emerging technologies (AI Agents etc.)

Responsibilities

  • You will understand the current data pipelines and datasets, and come up with innovative solutions to analyze them and identify unique outliers and patterns
  • Participate in efforts to organize and query the datasets to support various detection engineering projects in flight
  • Envision and develop innovative signals and roll them out across customer workspaces, which would aid the customer to identify anomalous behavior within their workspace, across various stages of the Kill Chain.
  • Collaborate with key cross functional teams (Data and Backend engineering teams, Core platform and product teams etc.) to contribute towards security specific in-product feature development efforts.
  • Partner with fellow security practitioners to develop and maintain internal tools and solutions that support our detection engineering efforts

Preferred Qualifications

    No preferred qualifications provided.