Product Vulnerability Engineer

Leadout Capital; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Product Vulnerability Engineer to join our vulnerability response team. You will lead the response to lower/moderate severity vulnerabilities and contribute to high severity handling, while communicating findings clearly to diverse teams.

The role requires strong technical fundamentals, experience with vulnerability management, and the ability to operate under pressure within a large, complex organization.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years in information security with vulnerability response experience.
• Ability to triage multiple vulnerabilities and prioritize.
• Experience with OWASP Top 10.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Fundamentals of networking and system architecture.
• Familiarity with regulations relating to vulnerability response.

Responsibilities

• Lead response to low/moderate severity vulnerabilities and participate in high severity vulnerabilities.
• Triaging and prioritizing vulnerability work across multiple teams.
• Communicate complex scenarios clearly to non-technical colleagues.
• Research and analyze exploit indicators and investigative techniques.

Skills

Vulnerability response

Security analysis

Incident response

OWASP Top 10

Networking basics

Communication skills

AWS / cloud security

Tools

Web proxy tools

Forensics tools

Job description

The Experience

The security team at Salesforce deals with the most challenging problems in information security and we are seeking a Product Vulnerability Engineer to join one of the world's leading vulnerability response teams!

The pace and variety of our work creates a unique learning environment, whether you are starting out or have deep security experience. You will be given unique challenges and the tools to solve them, surrounded by exceptional colleagues, and supported by incredibly helpful partner teams.

This candidate must be a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized) operating on U.S. Soil who does not hold dual citizenship with the ability to meet customer and government screening standards applicable to this role.

What You'll Actually Be Doing

Product Vulnerability Engineers are responsible for leading the response to lower/moderate severity vulnerabilities and participating in the response to high severity vulnerabilities. Successful vulnerability engineers thrive on challenge, are calm under pressure, and can think critically.

You're Our Person If You Have:

• 5-7 years experience in information security or closely related roles, with direct experience of security vulnerability response.
• Ability to manage and constantly triage multiple security vulnerabilities, differentiating urgent issues from the merely important.
• Ability to stand back from a complex problem, logically assess the facts, and formulate a plan of action - even in the worst of situations.
• Experience managing common types of security vulnerabilities, e.g., OWASP Top 10.
• Familiarity with common threats and issues related to security vulnerabilities, e.g., credential phishing, internal data spillage events, and inadvertent data leaks.
• Application forensics skills, including collecting and analyzing code artifacts to assess potential impact if the vulnerability were to be exploited.
• Superior verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to effectively and clearly communicate complex scenarios to non-technical colleagues.
• Exceptional technical basics, including networking fundamentals, common application protocols, system architecture, and basics of software development.
• Strong knowledge of web proxy tools and techniques.
• Ability to research and learn unfamiliar technologies quickly, adapting existing knowledge and processes to investigate and resolve security issues.
• Broad information security knowledge, including some familiarity with key regulations and standards relating to security vulnerability response.

Even Better If You Have:

• Prior experience in a large and complex organization, operating across numerous locations and with a high degree of change.
• Experience reproducing proof of concept exploitation steps.
• Experience judging the priority of a vulnerability based on risk and impact.
• Experience securing applications and infrastructure in Amazon Web Services and similar IaaS / PaaS platforms.
• Deep application security knowledge, with the ability to map an application vulnerability to exploitation indications and relevant investigative techniques.
• Relevant incident response or information security certifications, such as GIAC GWAPT, GIAC GCIH, GIAC GPEN, GIAC GXPN, Offensive Security OSCP.