Threat Assessment Lead - Architect Security & Automation

Salesforce; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Lead Threat Assessment Engineer to lead threat modeling and security architecture for our Environmental Threat Assessment team. You will mentor junior analysts and engineers, scale abilities via automation, and translate research into actionable requirements for Product & Enterprise Security partners.

You will work within Salesforce Security's Cybersecurity Operations Center to identify top threats, engage executives, and drive design solutions with Product teams and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in threat modeling and security architecture.
• Strong knowledge of threat actor tactics and offensive strategies.
• Experience with Cyber Kill Chain, Diamond Model, MITRE ATT&CK, and STRIDE; OWASP Top 10 familiarity.
• In-depth knowledge of cloud security and SaaS/PaaS threats.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Conduct threat modeling for infrastructure and app-level scenarios, considering security architecture and new products/features.
• Correlate research using threat intelligence, incident response data, and internal signals to manage top threats.
• Analyze logs from endpoints, networks, and security tools to find gaps or bypasses.
• Speak with executives to translate assessments into actionable recommendations for product and enterprise security partners.
• Drive improvements from security incidents with Product and Enterprise Security teams as SME during design solutioning.
• Design and orchestrate new agentic tooling for the team’s analysis projects with frontier harnesses and human workflows.
• Provide strategic insights to leadership by contextualizing intelligence in Salesforce context with Threat Intelligence.
• Collaborate with architects across Cyber Security to design alerting against realized threats.

Skills

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Threat intelligence

Cloud security

Log analysis

Communication

Technical degree

Education

Related technical degree

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Lead Threat Assessment Engineer to lead threat modeling and security architecture for our Environmental Threat Assessment team. You will mentor junior analysts and engineers, scale abilities via automation, and translate research into actionable requirements for Product & Enterprise Security partners.

You will work within Salesforce Security's Cybersecurity Operations Center to identify top threats, engage executives, and drive design solutions with Product teams and