Senior Platform Trust & Safety Engineer - Detection

Socket.dev; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 134,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Platform Trust and Safety Engineer to join the Platform Defense and Safety (PDS) team. You will review abuse reports across Core CRM and Marketing Cloud, build and tune detection rules in Splunk, and collaborate with Legal teams to maintain compliant, secure platforms.

Ideal candidates have extensive information security experience, threat intelligence, and incident response, with hands-on SPL rule authoring and data-mining familiarity.

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

Splunk

YARA

SPL

Command line

Tools

Splunk

YARA

SPL

Git/GitHub

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Platform Trust and Safety Engineer to join the Platform Defense and Safety (PDS) team. You will review abuse reports across Core CRM and Marketing Cloud, build and tune detection rules in Splunk, and collaborate with Legal teams to maintain compliant, secure platforms.

Ideal candidates have extensive information security experience, threat intelligence, and incident response, with hands-on SPL rule authoring and data-mining familiarity.