Security GRC Lead, Governance Engineering

Salesforce

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Bellevue, WAMcLean, VASan Francisco, CA
Salary
$148,500–$223,900 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
12 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Nov 30, 2026

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TL;DR · Security GRC Lead, Governance Engineering

The Security GRC Lead, Governance Engineering joins the Governance Engineering team to serve as a technical liaison between Assurance and Engineering organizations. This role bridges the gap between security requirements and technical implementation by evaluating how controls are designed, operated, and scaled across platforms, infrastructure, and cloud environments. You will translate regulatory expectations into actionable technical requirements, develop second-line oversight protocols, and manage control incident responses. Key responsibilities include assessing risk during M&As and monitoring compliance frameworks like the EU AI Act. The ideal candidate possesses a strong background in security engineering, IAM, or cloud security. You must demonstrate proficiency with frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, SOC, SOX, and FedRAMP while navigating complex architectures, APIs, and software development processes to ensure secure engineering practices by design.

What you'll do

  • Serve as a technical liaison between Assurance, Engineering, Product Security, and Legal teams.
  • Evaluate how security and compliance controls are designed, implemented, and scaled across cloud environments.
  • Translate regulatory and security expectations into actionable technical requirements for Engineering teams.
  • Develop second-line oversight protocols to independently monitor and audit security control operations.
  • Assess control and risk exposure during mergers and acquisitions to deliver executable activation plans.
  • Establish a formal incident management practice for control failures, including root-cause analysis and postmortems.
  • Monitor global compliance frameworks and AI governance to identify organizational implications.
  • Report on control reliability, coverage, and systemic risk trends to executive leadership.

What we're looking for

  • U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency is required.
  • Strong technical background in security engineering, cloud security, product security, IAM, platform engineering, or security architecture.
  • Ability to understand complex systems, architectures, APIs, infrastructure, cloud environments, and software development processes.
  • Experience translating security, risk, regulatory, or compliance requirements into technical implementation requirements.
  • Strong understanding of security controls and frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, SOC, SOX, FedRAMP, or similar.
  • Familiarity with emerging technology and regulatory areas such as AI security, AI governance, and privacy.
  • Strong communication skills to explain technical details to governance teams and translate governance expectations for Engineering.
  • Experience with independent control testing, assurance or audit practices, incident or root-cause analysis, or M&A due diligence (preferred).

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