Security GRC Lead, Governance Engineering

Salesforce, Inc.; Washington; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce seeks a Security Governance professional who can bridge Security & Compliance requirements with Engineering implementation. This role partners with Engineering, Product Security, Legal, and other stakeholders to translate insights into practical, scalable governance.

The successful candidate will evaluate how controls are designed, implemented, operated, and scaled across enterprise systems, and will drive second-line oversight and ongoing risk assessment across engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Experience bridging security & compliance requirements with engineering implementations.
• Ability to translate regulatory expectations into technical requirements.
• Strong collaboration across legal, product security, and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Bridge Assurance and Engineering - act as technical liaison with multiple stakeholders.
• Evaluate how security and compliance controls are implemented in applications and cloud environments.
• Create the Engineering Feedback Loop to reduce friction and clarify requirements.
• Translate regulatory expectations into clear, actionable technical requirements for engineering teams.
• Develop second-line oversight protocols to monitor controls across engineering teams.
• Understand key platforms, architectures, and security capabilities to aid risk decisions.
• Assess control and risk during M&As and design activation plans.
• Collaborate to translate emerging security requirements into future controls.
• Monitor AI governance and evolving regulatory expectations to anticipate implications.
• Drive change management and enablement to improve compliance adoption.
• Run control incident management with postmortems and root-cause analysis.
• Influence future control design with lessons from implementation.
• Build relationships with security champions to scale governance.
• Report on control reliability and risk trends to leadership.

Skills

Technical liaison

Security governance

Regulatory compliance

Cloud environments

Engineering collaboration

Job description

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

Job Category

Enterprise Technology & Infrastructure

Job Details

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword - it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

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.

Role Overview

We are looking for a technically strong Security Governance professional who can bridge the gap between Security & Compliance requirements and Engineering implementation.

This role will serve as the technical voice and face of Assurance. You will partner closely with Engineering organizations, PCLs, Product Security, Legal, and other stakeholders to understand how security and compliance requirements are implemented in real systems. You will identify what is working and what is not, and translate those insights back into practical, scalable governance requirements.

The successful candidate will understand systems and architectures deeply enough to move beyond validating whether a control exists. They will evaluate how the control is designed, implemented, operated, and scaled across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

• Bridge Assurance and Engineering - Serve as a technical liaison between Assurance, Engineering, Product Security, PCLs, Legal, and other stakeholders, ensuring governance requirements are technically feasible, understandable, and implementable.
• Evaluate Control Implementation - Work directly with Engineering teams to understand how security and compliance controls are implemented within applications, platforms, infrastructure, cloud environments, and engineering workflows.
• Create the Engineering Feedback Loop - Assess what is working, what is creating unnecessary friction, and where controls or requirements are unclear or difficult to operationalize. Feed those insights back into control design, standards, and governance processes.
• Make Requirements Engineer-Usable - Translate regulatory, compliance, and security expectations into clear, actionable technical requirements that Engineering teams can consistently implement and validate.
• Develop Second-Line Oversight - Develop second-line oversight protocols that independently monitor, audit, and validate that all security controls are operational across engineering teams in Salesforce (e.g., attestations, CRE checks).
• Understand Systems End-to-End - Develop a deep understanding of key platforms, architectures, engineering processes, security capabilities, and control implementations to help Assurance make better risk and compliance decisions.
• Assess Risk in M&A - Assess control and risk exposure during M&As. Design the assessment to price risk, evaluate compatibility, and deliver an executable activation plan tied back to the risk model.
• Partner on Emerging Security Requirements - Collaborate with Product Security, Legal, PCEs, Market Enablement, and other teams to understand emerging requirements and determine how they should translate into future security controls and engineering expectations.
• Track the Direction of Compliance Frameworks - Monitor where regulatory and compliance expectations are heading, including AI governance, the EU AI Act, evolving international requirements, and market-specific regulatory expectations. Proactively identify implications for the organization.
• Drive Change Management and Enablement - Build the change management, training, and communication needed to shift teams from "go find and interpret a policy" to "know precisely what applies and how to comply."
• Run Control Incident Management - Stand up a formal incident management practice for control failures. Include postmortems, root-cause analysis, and error budgets for controls, modeled on availability incident response.
• Influence Future Control Design - Partner with control owners and technical teams to evolve controls based on new technologies, regulatory expectations, architecture changes, and lessons learned from implementation.
• Drive Security Champion Engagement - Build strong relationships with technical stakeholders across Engineering. Establish a network of security/control champions who can provide implementation feedback, promote requirements, and help scale governance across teams.
• Report to Executive Leadership - Report on control reliability, coverage, pressure, and systemic risk trends to executive leadership. Feed findings back to the control framework for continuous improvement.
• Represent Assurance Ac