Senior Platform Abuse & Threat Detection Engineer

Salesforce, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

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

The Platform Defense and Safety (PDS) team guards against misuse and malicious activity, adapting to evolving threats while maintaining user trust. Join a cross-functional team that builds detection rules, conducts investigations end to end, and collaborates with Legal and regulatory functions on reporting such as EU DSA.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in information security roles involving platform abuse, threat intelligence, incident response, or threat detection.
• Experience managing security or abuse investigations end to end: triage, evidence collection, risk assessment, containment, escalation, and closure.
• Specialization in at least one of: log analysis, file-level forensics, or data mining.
• Experience authoring detection rules using languages such as YARA or Splunk SPL, and comfort working from a command line.

Responsibilities

• Review, triage, and respond to external and internal abuse reports across Core CRM and Marketing Cloud, with an eye toward expanding into new products.
• 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

Log analysis

Education

Related technical degree

Tools

YARA

Splunk SPL

Command line

Job description

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

The Platform Defense and Safety (PDS) team guards against misuse and malicious activity, adapting to evolving threats while maintaining user trust. Join a cross-functional team that builds detection rules, conducts investigations end to end, and collaborates with Legal and regulatory functions on reporting such as EU DSA.