Security Engineer (Senior/Lead) - MeshMesh

100 Salesforce, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 286,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a MeshMesh Security Engineer to safeguard the platform and its customers by building security into every layer of the system, from infrastructure to application code.

Your work includes security reviews and threat modeling, building and maintaining tooling, remediating vulnerabilities with engineering teams, and supporting audits as we scale. This role requires 4–8 years of experience and strong cloud skills.

Qualifications

• 4–8 years of experience in security engineering.
• Experience in application or infrastructure security engineering.
• Experience with cloud services (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and at least one OO language (Java, Go, Python, C++, C#).
• Experience building large-scale distributed systems in cloud environments.
• Familiar with security frameworks and threat modeling practices.
• Experience with vulnerability scanning and remediation tooling.
• Agentic AI security workflows and tool reviews.

Responsibilities

• Conduct security reviews and threat modeling for new features and systems.
• Build and maintain security tooling, including vulnerability scanning and monitoring.
• Partner with engineering teams to remediate vulnerabilities and harden systems.
• Support compliance and audit efforts as the platform scales.
• Own day-to-day security engineering execution, driving remediation and continuous control validation.

Skills

Threat modeling

Security reviews

Vulnerability remediation

AI security

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

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The Experience

The MeshMesh Security Engineer safeguards the platform and its customers by building security into every layer of the system, from infrastructure to application code.

Responsibilities

• Conduct security reviews and threat modeling for new features and systems.
• Build and maintain security tooling, including vulnerability scanning and monitoring.
• Partner with engineering teams to remediate vulnerabilities and harden systems.
• Support compliance and audit efforts as the platform scales.
• Own day-to-day security engineering execution, driving vulnerability remediation, security improvements, and continuous control validation.

Required Skills/Experience

• You have 4-8 years of experience.
• You have experience in application or infrastructure security engineering.
• Experience with public cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure) 2+ years of deep understanding of object oriented programming and experience with at least one object oriented programming language (Java, Go, Python C++, C#)
• You have experience building large scale distributed systems, especially in cloud environments
• You are familiar with common security frameworks and threat modeling practices.
• You have experience with vulnerability scanning and remediation tooling.
• You are an Agentic Engineer - you understand how to secure and review AI-assisted development workflows built with Claude and similar tools, including agent loops and tool use.

Preferred Skills/Experience

• You hold a relevant security certification (e.g. CISSP, OSCP).
• You have experience securing networking or IoT platforms.
• You have hnowledge working with relational database MySQL, Postgres
• You are familiar with open source technologies, such as ZooKeeper, MongoDB
• You have experience building services with Docker and Kubernetes
• You have good knowledge with network technologies, such as TCP/IP, DNS or load balancer
• You are familiar with emerging AI security frameworks, such as OWASP LLM/Agentic Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS.
• You have understanding of emerging security challenges and controls within AI-assisted and agentic software development lifecycles.

About Salesforce

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