Senior Offensive Security Engineer (Red Team)

salesforce.com, inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time off programs

Medical

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Mental health support

Paid parental leave

Life and disability insurance

401(k)

Employee stock purchasing program

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Offensive Security Engineer for the Product Red Team to design and run adversary simulations against our SaaS product portfolio. You will lead engagements end to end, build multi-step attack chains, and translate red team operations into engineering and detection improvements across a large, interconnected platform.

You will collaborate with Detection Engineering and Incident Response teams, apply AI-driven testing techniques, and contribute to threat modeling,

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on offensive security experience.
• Strong command of web app and API exploitation.
• Read production code at scale in at least one language (Java, Python, Go, JS/TS, Apex).
• Fluent in cloud security for at least one major provider.

Responsibilities

• Build and demonstrate multi-step attack chains across the product ecosystem.
• Own engagements end to end: charter development, threat modeling, backlog, and reporting.
• Collaborate with Detection Engineering, Detection and Response, and Incident Response teams to validate alerts.

Skills

Offensive security

Web application security

API security

Programming languages: Java, Python,Go

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: Product

Job Details

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Senior Offensive Security Engineer, Red Team

The Experience

The Product Red Team focuses on attacking Salesforce's full deployed product ecosystem and surrounding infrastructure - not the corporate environment. As a Senior Offensive Security Engineer, you will work closely with the Red Team Director to design and run adversary simulations against product trust boundaries, uncovering high-impact attack chains and validating how weaknesses can be exploited end to end. This role emphasizes multi-step exploitation, depth, and systemic impact, and you'll help translate red team operations into engineering and detection improvements across a large, interconnected software-as-a-service (SaaS) product portfolio.

What You'll Actually Be Doing

• Build and demonstrate multi-step attack chains across the product ecosystem, spanning web application and application programming interface (API) abuse, identity and authorization failures, cross-tenant isolation breaks, and integration-plane trust boundary abuse (AppExchange packages, partner APIs, OAuth applications, MuleSoft connectors).
• Own engagements end to end: charter development, threat modeling, ranked hypothesis backlogs, and technical reporting with root causes, variant analysis, and systemic remediation guidance.
• Collaborate with Detection Engineering, Detection and Response, and Incident Response teams to validate alerting and visibility on emulated chains, lead readout sessions, and run purple-team operations that close visibility gaps.
• Apply AI-driven testing techniques - agentic tooling, automated reconnaissance, AI-assisted chain development - alongside traditional manual tradecraft, and dedicate roughly 10-20% of time to research on novel attack techniques and tooling.

You're Our Person If...

• You have deep, hands-on offensive security experience with a demonstrated focus on web application and API attack surfaces, including a history of finding multi-step chains (prior product or SaaS red team work, SaaS bug bounty Hall of Fame recognition, public Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), or equivalent - single-bug submissions alone don't meet this bar).
• You have strong command of web application and API exploitation (auth bypasses, business logic abuse, server-side request forgery (SSRF), injection classes, insecure direct object references (IDOR), OAuth/Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)/OpenID Connect (OIDC) attacks), multi-tenant isolation failures, and identity federation (SAML, OIDC, OAuth scope confusion, System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM), JSON Web Token (JWT) manipulation).
• You can read production code at scale in at least one language (Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Apex) and are fluent in cloud security for at least one major provider (IAM abuse, instance metadata, cross-account pivots, container and orchestration boundaries).
• You're familiar with DevOps and build pipeline attack surfaces (continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) abuse, dependency confusion, supply chain compromise, infrastructure-as-code (IaC) misconfigurations), and write clearly enough to hold up for a vice president (VP)-level engineering audience without losing technical precision.

Even Better If...

• You hold offensive security certifications such as Offensive Security Web Expert (OSWE), GIAC Cloud Penetration Tester (GCPN), eLearnSecurity Web Application Penetration Tester eXtreme (eWPTXv2), Certified Web Exploitation Expert (CWEE), or equivalent.
• You specialize in AI/ML attack surfaces (prompt injection, agentic privilege abuse, tool and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline attacks), supply chain and build-pipeline attacks, mobile, or low-level exploitation.
• You've worked against managed package ecosystems, SaaS integration platforms, or multi-tenant SaaS isolation boundaries, and are familiar with MITRE ATT&CK, MITRE ATLAS, and the OWASP Top 10 as engagement planning references.
• You have experience operating under formal engagement charters and rules of engagement, with judgment about when a chain has reached an authorization boundary and work should stop.

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 and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we'll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love.

Accommodations

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Benefits

• time off programs
• medical
• dental
• vision
• mental health support
• paid parental leave
• life and disability insurance
• 401(k)
• an employee stock purchasing program

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