Lead Threat Assessment Engineer

Salesforce

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Francisco, CAPalo Alto, CASeattle, WABellevue, WA
Salary
$172,500–$260,100 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
19 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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Salesforce is the world''s leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform, offering cloud-based software for sales, service, marketing, analytics, and application development. Industry: Enterprise Software & Cloud Computing

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TL;DR · Lead Threat Assessment Engineer

As a Lead Threat Assessment Engineer on the Environmental Threat Assessment team within the Cybersecurity Operations Center, you will serve as a subject matter expert identifying and mitigating threats across global infrastructure. You will conduct threat modeling for infrastructure and application-level scenarios, analyze logs from endpoint and network security tooling, and translate technical research into actionable requirements for Product and Engineering stakeholders. Your daily work involves mentoring junior analysts, managing the top threats program, and designing agentic tooling supported by frontier harnesses. You must demonstrate proficiency in cloud security, the OWASP Top 10, and frameworks including MITRE ATT&CK, STRIDE, the Diamond Model, and the Cyber Kill Chain. This role solves the business problem of securing SaaS and PaaS environments against complex exploitation and abuse threats.

What you'll do

  • Conduct threat modeling for infrastructure and application-level scenarios including security architecture and new product features.
  • Analyze logs from endpoint, network, and security tooling to identify coverage gaps or control bypasses.
  • Translate technical research into actionable security requirements for Product, Engineering, and Enterprise Security stakeholders.
  • Design and orchestrate new agentic tooling to automate team analysis capabilities and workflows.
  • Provide strategic threat insights to leadership by contextualizing intelligence within the Salesforce environment.
  • Drive security uplifts based on incident findings in partnership with Product and Enterprise Security teams.
  • Mentor a team of junior analysts and engineers to scale threat assessment capabilities.
  • Collaborate with architects to design alerts against realized threats using threat intelligence and detection telemetry.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience in threat modeling and security architecture.
  • Significant understanding of threat actor tactics, offensive strategies, and research and analytical skills.
  • Experience using frameworks such as Cyber Kill Chain, Diamond Model, MITRE ATT&CK, and STRIDE.
  • Familiarity with application security, specifically the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities.
  • In-depth knowledge of cloud security, cloud architecture fundamentals, and common SaaS/PaaS exploitation threats.
  • Proficiency in analyzing logs from various security tools.
  • A related technical degree.
  • Experience in Product or Enterprise Security design reviews and security assurance (preferred).
  • Experience automating processes and/or using AI tooling to automate workflows and data analysis (preferred).

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