Senior Product Security Engineer - Core Platform Security Team

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About Salesforce

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Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

Applications will be accepted until 01/29/2027.

Job Title: Senior Product Security Engineer

The Experience

• Salesforce's Platform Security team protects the platform that our customers, partners, and developers build on. We are hands-on security engineers who work closely with Product and Engineering throughout the software development lifecycle.
• As a Senior Product Security Engineer, you secure the platform's integration and service-connectivity layer. This includes events, messaging, connectors, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and the agent and Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors that let external tools and AI models talk to the platform.
• You help a fast-moving Engineering organization ship safely. You do this through threat modeling, design and code reviews, and secure-by-default guidance. You also get to shape how AI agents connect securely to the world's #1 AI CRM.
• This role is based in San Francisco, CA, or Seattle/Bellevue, WA and is eligible for a hybrid work arrangement.

What You'll Actually Be Doing

• Lead threat modeling and security design reviews for the platform's event, messaging, and integration pathways, connectors, and APIs that move customer data between systems. Trace issues to their root cause so fixes land in the right place.
• Secure service-to-service authentication, external client apps, and agent and MCP connectors, where excessive privilege, secret leakage, and misuse of delegated access are key threats.
• Build secure-by-default patterns into frameworks, connector software development kits (SDKs), and onboarding paths. Review Java, JavaScript, and TypeScript code in a large codebase to validate design assumptions and find risk in authentication, integration, and access-control flows.
• Partner with architects, engineers, and product owners to move findings to resolution, and mentor junior security engineers on secure design and threat modeling.

You're Our Person If...

• You have 5+ years of experience in product, application, or platform security.
• You have hands-on experience securing backend, integration, or service-connectivity systems, including API security (REST and GraphQL authentication, rate limiting, and input validation).
• You have working experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and JSON Web Tokens (JWT), plus service-to-service authentication and permission models.
• You have reviewed source code in Java and at least one other language (JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or Go) to confirm security risk.

Even Better If...

• You have secured eventing, messaging, integration, or API platforms at scale.
• You have connector security, agent integration, or MCP experience, including how trust boundaries work in agentic systems beyond basic prompt injection.
• You have multi-tenant software as a service (SaaS) backend security experience at the application layer.
• You have served as the embedded security subject-matter expert (SME) for a product area.
• You can independently own threat models and explain distributed-systems risks such as race conditions and concurrency flaws.
• You write clear security guidance and lead design reviews that keep teams moving.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance andbe your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you cando your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.

The typical base salary range for this position is $148,500 - $223,900 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $178,900 - $246,000 annually.

The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.