Senior Vulnerability Operations Lead — AI & Cloud Security

Salesforce, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 197,000 - 345,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time off programs

Medical

Dental

Vision

Mental health support

Paid parental leave

Life and disability insurance

401(k)

Employee stock purchase program

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a Vulnerability Operations and Response Principal to own the strategy and scaling of enterprise vulnerability management across multi-cloud and AI deployments.

You will partner with engineering, infrastructure and product security to identify, prioritize and neutralize vulnerabilities at cloud scale. The role shapes how a global enterprise secures AI-forward platforms and reports to executive security leadership.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of deep technical experience in enterprise vulnerability management and security across cloud scale.
• Proven track record influencing senior engineering and product stakeholders to drive remediation.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent technical education.

Responsibilities

• Own the internal Vulnerability Operations roadmap end to end, driving strategy and execution for traditional infrastructure, container and microservice ecosystems, and secure development.
• Build and enforce specialized security governance and vulnerability assessment frameworks for AI and ML workloads, including model supply chain risks, prompt injection pathways, shadow AI deployments, and data pipeline exposures.
• Support critical vulnerability response operations, including leading high-profile vulnerability incidents and improving processes for your teams and partner teams during those incidents.
• Partner with Product Management, Engineering, and Architecture leaders across internal groups to build capabilities that minimize exposure to vulnerabilities across the entire vulnerability lifecycle.
• Design techniques for continuous automated scanning, intelligent triage, and ticketing orchestration pipelines that eliminate manual overhead and streamline remediation without creating operational bottlenecks.
• Report systemic posture trends, emerging AI threat vectors, model vulnerability metrics, and cross-group Service Level Agreement (SLA) performance directly to executive security leadership and C-level stakeholders.

Skills

Vulnerability management

Security leadership

Threat-informed prioritization

AI/ML security awareness

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a Vulnerability Operations and Response Principal to own the strategy and scaling of enterprise vulnerability management across multi-cloud and AI deployments.

You will partner with engineering, infrastructure and product security to identify, prioritize and neutralize vulnerabilities at cloud scale. The role shapes how a global enterprise secures AI-forward platforms and reports to executive security leadership.