Product Security Lead

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About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM+Trust. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place!

About Our Team

We are hiring a Lead Product Security Engineer for our Product Security Advisory team. Our mission is to reduce security risks and ensure compliance with standards, regulations, and certifications across all Salesforce products.

Our team provides deep technical expertise in architecture and infrastructure to our Business Units. We offer security advisory services, actionable SDLC standard methodologies, and critical risk treatment recommendations. We secure a wide range of technologies, both on-premise and in public cloud environments, including web applications, distributed systems, and virtualized environments. This role supports engineering across full stack, ensuring the security of customer-facing products!

Impact - Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering teams; performing architecture risk analysis to proactively identify security flaws and develop risk mitigation plans to reduce risk throughout the SDLC.

• Brainstorm with counterparts in the product teams to influence security improvements upstream. Identify the trade-offs of different solutions and recommend the efficient design to achieve both functional goals and security requirements.

• Collaborate with Product BISOs to curate a highly aligned set of risk based security priorities to drive security maturity across the products. 

• Ability to advise on securing large, sophisticated enterprise architectures or systems deployed in public cloud environments across the application or infrastructure stack.

• Research new technologies, emerging threats, and vulnerabilities to perform business impact analysis.

• Analyze risk signals from diverse risk discovery data sources to derive crucial insights that will define the security activities and roadmap for Salesforce products.

• Use product knowledge and deep security expertise to support risk prioritization activities across various security programs.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience is required

• 8+ years validated experience in the following areas in a security engineering or research role:

  • Securing products and infrastructure from the OWASP Top 10 and/or CWE Top 25

  • Exploiting web and web services security vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting, cross site request forgery, SQL injection, DoS attacks, XML/SOAP, API attacks, etc.

  • Public Cloud security architecture in one or more of the following: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud, etc.

• Experience with software development in one or more languages such as: JavaScript, Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, TypeScript

• Threat modeling of security topics across infrastructure security & application security domains 

• Understanding of TCP/IP, common networking ports and protocols, traffic flow, system administration, OSI model, defense-in-depth and common security elements

• Strong writing and presentation skills. Possess the ability to communicate concisely, clearly, and intelligently to partners from a variety of backgrounds, including those who are non-technical.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with client side/browser security features like same origin policy, CORS, CSP, shadow DOM, Web Components, web development frameworks etc.

• An attacker’s approach; consider abuse and charge paths as well as the defensive mentality to recommendations to prevent them

• A passion around improving the security development lifecycle and delivering security mentorship to engineers in a language they understand.

• Ability to work with data, identify trends and propose comprehensive mitigations that eradicate systemic security concerns 

• Experience leading or participating in an information security program and improving or proposing improvements to a secure development lifecycle

• Some experience performing penetration testing or familiarity with the process

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For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $184,000 to $253,000.Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.