Product Security Engineer, Senior
Role Overview
Join Salesforce’s Infrastructure Product Security Assurance team as a Senior Product Security Engineer.
Provide strategic security guidance to engineering teams responsible for foundational services, infrastructure databases, monitoring tools, and public cloud platforms.
Work across on-premises and cloud environments, including web applications, distributed systems, and virtualized infrastructure.
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Role overview
Join Salesforce’s Infrastructure Product Security Assurance team as a Senior Product Security Engineer.
Provide strategic security guidance to engineering teams responsible for foundational services, infrastructure databases, monitoring tools, and public cloud platforms.
Work across on-premises and cloud environments, including web applications, distributed systems, and virtualized infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Advise engineering teams on security for large-scale cloud initiatives and enterprise application and infrastructure architectures.
- Lead architecture and threat modeling to identify vulnerabilities and develop risk mitigation plans across the SDLC.
- Recommend secure product designs that balance functional goals and security requirements.
- Partner with Product BISOs to prioritize risk-based security initiatives and analyze risk signals and emerging threats.
- Serve as a security contact for engineering partners and leadership and champion secure development practices.
Required qualifications
- 5–8 years in security engineering, security architecture, or security assurance.
- Experience securing products and infrastructure in one or more public cloud environments and understanding cloud service models, shared responsibility, and identity primitives.
- Experience with security design reviews and threat modeling; familiarity with OWASP Top 10 and CWE Top 25.
- Knowledge of OAuth/OIDC, SAML, service authentication, API authorization, TCP/IP, TLS, network segmentation, key management, certificates, secrets, and encryption.
- Strong communication and ability to influence engineering teams without direct authority.
Preferred qualifications
- Ability to reason about abuse cases and attack paths; penetration testing or offensive security experience is beneficial.
- Experience improving secure development lifecycles, security reviews, or security advisory programs.
- Experience analyzing service-portfolio data and recommending root-cause mitigations.
- Code-reading experience in Java, Go, or Python and familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, service mesh, PKI, CSPM, vulnerability scanning, SAST, or infrastructure-as-code security scanning.
Compensation
- The typical base salary range is $148,500 to $223,900 annually. Select San Francisco and New York City metropolitan areas have a range of $178,900 to $246,000 annually.
- Compensation ranges represent base salary and exclude applicable bonuses, sales incentives, equity, and benefits.
Location
- The posting lists San Francisco, California, or Bellevue, Washington as locations; it does not state a remote or hybrid arrangement.
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