Senior Security Engineer, AI-Driven Database Platform

Salesforce; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 197,000 - 314,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a seasoned security software engineer to own the design and hands-on implementation for defending our production database platform. You will build detection, enforcement, and anomaly-detection capabilities at scale, partnering with database engineering to embed security into the platform from design to production rollout.

The role requires 10+ years in security for distributed databases, expert-level knowledge of multi-tenant isolation, and strong coding skills in Python,

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional security experience with distributed databases or multi-tenant SaaS architectures.
• Experience leading threat modeling and architecture risk analysis for complex distributed database cloud environments.
• Expert-level design of consistent security policies across AWS and GCP, including mitigating provider-specific edge cases.
• Strong programming skills in Python / Rust / Go.
• Hands-on experience building or improving security detection and enforcement software for large-scale production database systems.

Responsibilities

• Designing security detection and enforcement software for large-scale production database systems
• Building static and dynamic analysis pipelines for database vulnerability classes: SQL injection, privilege escalation, broken access control, and tenant-isolation breaches
• Applying ML to anomaly detection: data exfiltration, insider threat, and unusual access to customer data
• Building security guardrails for AI agents and LLMs operating on production databases: least-privilege configuration, scoped API access, sandbox isolation, and runtime behavioral monitoring
• Shipping automation for real-time detection and response to fast, automated attacks
• Driving vulnerability management and software composition analysis across the database platform
• Partnering with database engineering teams to embed security into the platform, from design review through production rollout

Skills

Python

Rust

Go

Threat modeling

Database security

Tools

AWS

GCP

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a seasoned security software engineer to own the design and hands-on implementation for defending our production database platform. You will build detection, enforcement, and anomaly-detection capabilities at scale, partnering with database engineering to embed security into the platform from design to production rollout.

The role requires 10+ years in security for distributed databases, expert-level knowledge of multi-tenant isolation, and strong coding skills in Python,