Senior Lead Security Engineer

Salesforce

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco, CASeattle, WA
Salary: $148,500–$260,100 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 4 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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 · Senior Lead Security Engineer

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The Security Engineer (Senior/Lead) - MeshMesh joins the MeshMesh team to safeguard the platform and its customers by integrating security into every layer from infrastructure to application code. You will conduct security reviews, perform threat modeling for new features, and build security tooling for vulnerability scanning and monitoring. Your daily work involves partnering with engineering teams to remediate vulnerabilities, hardening systems, and supporting compliance efforts. You must possess experience in application or infrastructure security, public cloud services like AWS, GCP, or Azure, and object-oriented programming in Java, Go, Python, C++, or C#. The role requires expertise in large-scale distributed systems, Docker, Kubernetes, and MySQL. You will specifically address security challenges within AI-assisted development workflows, utilizing frameworks like OWASP LLM/Agentic Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS.

Skills

AWS Google Cloud Platform Azure Java Go Python C++ C# Docker Kubernetes MySQL ZooKeeper MongoDB TCP/IP DNS Claude OWASP LLM MITRE ATLAS Threat Modeling Vulnerability Scanning

What you'll do

Conduct security reviews and threat modeling for new features and systems.
Build and maintain security tooling for vulnerability scanning and monitoring.
Partner with engineering teams to remediate vulnerabilities and harden systems.
Support compliance and audit efforts as the platform scales.
Drive day-to-day security engineering execution and continuous control validation.
Secure and review AI-assisted development workflows, including agent loops and tool use.

What we're looking for

You have 4-8 years of experience.
You have experience in application or infrastructure security engineering.
You have experience with public cloud services such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure.
You have 2+ years of deep understanding of object oriented programming and experience with at least one language like Java, Go, Python, C++, or C#.
You have experience building large scale distributed systems, especially in cloud environments.
You are familiar with common security frameworks and threat modeling practices.
You have experience with vulnerability scanning and remediation tooling.
You understand how to secure and review AI-assisted development workflows built with Claude and similar tools.

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