Sr. Security GRC Analyst, Forward Deployed Assurance

Salesforce; Washington; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. in Washington is seeking a technically adept Security Governance professional to bridge governance requirements with engineering implementation.

You will partner with Engineering, Product Security, Legal, and other stakeholders to translate security and compliance needs into practical controls across systems. You will evaluate how controls are designed, implemented, operated, and scaled, and help shape governance practices across the enterprise while staying aligned with

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency required.

Responsibilities

• Support Assurance and Engineering Alignment - coordinate governance requirements with Assurance, Engineering, Product Security, Legal, and other stakeholders to ensure requirements are actionable.
• Evaluate Control Implementation - work with Engineering teams to understand how security and compliance controls are implemented across apps, platforms, infra, and cloud environments.
• Create the Engineering Feedback Loop - assess performance and friction; feed insights back into control design, standards, and governance processes.
• Make Requirements Engineer-Usable - translate regulatory and security expectations into clear technical requirements for Engineering teams to implement and validate.
• Develop Second-Line Oversight - execute oversight protocols to monitor and attest that security controls are operational across teams.
• Understand Systems End-to-End - develop deep understanding of key platforms, architectures, and security capabilities to inform risk decisions.
• Assess Risk in M&A - design assessments to price risk and align activation plans with risk models.
• Partner on Emerging Security Requirements - collaborate to translate into future security controls and engineering expectations.
• Track the Direction of Compliance Frameworks - monitor regulatory trends and implications for the organization.
• Support Enablement and Change Management - contribute to documentation and training for compliance in development cycles.
• Support Control Incident Response - participate in incident reviews and root-cause analysis for control failures.
• Contribute to Control Refinement - provide feedback on control effectiveness and suggest updates.
• Engage Security Champions - work with champions to share guidance and adoption.
• Support Leadership Reporting - help track metrics on control coverage and risk items.
• Represent Assurance Requirements - be a point of contact for Assurance in engineering discussions.

Job description

Job Category

Enterprise Technology & Infrastructure

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword - it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

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About the team

We are looking for a technically strong Security Governance professional who can bridge the gap between Security & Compliance requirements and Engineering implementation.

This role will serve as the technical voice and face of Assurance. You will partner closely with Engineering organizations, PCLs, Product Security, Legal, and other stakeholders to understand how security and compliance requirements are implemented in real systems. You will identify what is working and what is not, and translate those insights back into practical, scalable governance requirements.

The successful candidate will understand systems and architectures well enough to move beyond validating whether a control exists. They will evaluate how the control is designed, implemented, operated, and scaled across the enterprise.

What you'll be doing:

• Support Assurance and Engineering Alignment - Support technical liaison activities between Assurance, Engineering, Product Security, PCLs, and Legal, ensuring governance requirements are clearly understood and actionable.
• Evaluate Control Implementation - Work directly with Engineering teams to understand how security and compliance controls are implemented within applications, platforms, infrastructure, cloud environments, and engineering workflows.
• Create the Engineering Feedback Loop - Assess what is working, what is creating unnecessary friction, and where controls or requirements are unclear or difficult to operationalize. Feed those insights back into control design, standards, and governance processes.
• Make Requirements Engineer-Usable - Translate regulatory, compliance, and security expectations into clear, actionable technical requirements that Engineering teams can consistently implement and validate.
• Develop Second-Line Oversight - Execute second-line oversight protocols that independently monitor, audit, and validate that all security controls are operational across engineering teams in Salesforce (e.g., attestations, CRE checks).
• Understand Systems End-to-End - Develop a deep understanding of key platforms, architectures, engineering processes, security capabilities, and control implementations to help Assurance make better risk and compliance decisions.
• Assess Risk in M&A - Assess control and risk exposure during M&As. Design the assessment to price risk, evaluate compatibility, and deliver an executable activation plan tied back to the risk model.
• Partner on Emerging Security Requirements - Collaborate with Product Security, Legal, PCEs, Market Enablement, and other teams to understand emerging requirements and determine how they should translate into future security controls and engineering expectations.
• Track the Direction of Compliance Frameworks - Monitor where regulatory and compliance expectations are heading, including AI governance, the EU AI Act, evolving international requirements, and market-specific regulatory expectations. Proactively identify implications for the organization.
• Support Enablement and Change Management - Contribute to change management efforts, documentation, and training to help engineering teams understand and comply with relevant policies and standards.
• Support Control Incident Response - Participate in control incident reviews and postmortems, assisting with root-cause analysis and tracking remediation efforts for control failures.
• Contribute to Control Refinement - Collaborate with control owners to provide feedback on control effectiveness and suggest updates based on operational findings and engineering feedback.
• Engage Security Champions - Work alongside security and control champions across Engineering to gather feedback, distribute guidance, and support governance adoption.
• Support Leadership Reporting - Help track and report metrics on control coverage, compliance trends, and risk items to support management reporting.
• Represent Assurance Requirements - Serve as a point of contact for Assurance in engineering and operational discussions, helping integrate compliance considerations early in development cycles.

What you should have:

U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency required. We're unabl