Lead Threat Assessment Engineer: Threat Modeling & Security Strategy

salesforce.com, inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Lead Threat Assessment Engineer to join the Environmental Threat Assessment team in the Security organization. You will lead threat modeling across infrastructure and applications, mentor junior analysts, and shape defenses with automation and agentic tooling.

The role requires extensive experience with threat frameworks, cloud security, and collaboration with Product and Engineering teams to drive secure designs and responses across the SaaS platform.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of threat modeling and security architecture experience.
• Experience with threat frameworks and translating research into requirements.

Responsibilities

• Conduct threat modeling for infrastructure and applications from observed threats.
• Analyze logs from security tooling to identify gaps and hunter potential bypasses.
• Engage executives to translate assessments into actionable recommendations for product & enterprise security.

Skills

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Threat intelligence

Incident response

Executive communication

Cloud security

Security tooling

Education

Related technical degree

Tools

Cyber Kill Chain

Diamond Model

MITRE ATT&CK

STRIDE

OWASP Top 10

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Lead Threat Assessment Engineer to join the Environmental Threat Assessment team in the Security organization. You will lead threat modeling across infrastructure and applications, mentor junior analysts, and shape defenses with automation and agentic tooling.

The role requires extensive experience with threat frameworks, cloud security, and collaboration with Product and Engineering teams to drive secure designs and responses across the SaaS platform.