Senior Platform Abuse & Security Engineer

Salesforce, Inc.; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Platform Trust and Safety Engineer to combat platform abuse, fraud, and account takeover across Core CRM and Marketing Cloud.

You will build detection rules in Splunk, write automated playbooks, and collaborate with Legal and Ethics teams on regulatory reporting (DSA). A related technical degree is required and experience in threat detection is preferred. This role requires on-call availability and strong cross-team communication.

Qualifications

• Experience in information security roles involving platform abuse, threat intelligence, incident response, or threat detection.
• Experience end-to-end abuse investigations: triage, evidence collection, risk assessment, containment, closure.
• Specialization in log analysis, file-level forensics, or data mining.
• Experience writing detection rules using YARA or Splunk SPL; comfort working from a command line.

Responsibilities

• Review, triage, and respond to external and internal abuse reports across Core CRM and Marketing Cloud.
• Build and tune detection and response rules in Splunk, and author and maintain automated response playbooks.
• Partner with our Office of Ethical Usage and Legal teams - including on regulatory reporting such as the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) - to keep our platforms free of malicious content.
• Identify and document anti-abuse tooling requirements for engineering teams, and evaluate third-party vendor tools to close detection gaps.

Skills

Information security

Threat intelligence

Incident response

Threat detection

YARA

Splunk SPL

Command line

Threat modeling

Education

Related technical degree

Tools

Splunk

Git/GitHub

SOQL

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Platform Trust and Safety Engineer to combat platform abuse, fraud, and account takeover across Core CRM and Marketing Cloud.

You will build detection rules in Splunk, write automated playbooks, and collaborate with Legal and Ethics teams on regulatory reporting (DSA). A related technical degree is required and experience in threat detection is preferred. This role requires on-call availability and strong cross-team communication.