Salesforce
Lead Threat Assessment Engineer
$172K–$286K
California - San Francisco +3 · Office Tech-Flexible · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Location
- California - San Francisco
California - Palo Alto
Washington - Seattle
Washington - Bellevue - Experience
- 8+ years in threat modeling and security architecture.
- Education
- Related technical degree required.
About the job
Leads threat assessments across Salesforce infrastructure and applications, translating technical research into security recommendations and scaling team capabilities through automation and agentic tooling.
What you'll do
- Conduct threat modeling and analyze intelligence, incident telemetry, security logs, and risk signals to identify and manage threats.
- Translate assessment findings into recommendations and drive security improvements with Product, Enterprise Security, and engineering stakeholders.
- Mentor analysts and engineers, and develop agentic tooling and alerting capabilities with security partners.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of experience in threat modeling and security architecture.
- Strong knowledge of threat actor tactics, offensive strategies, cloud security, and SaaS/PaaS exploitation and abuse threats.
- Experience with threat modeling frameworks and proficiency analyzing logs from security tools.
- Related technical degree required.
Nice to have
- Experience in Product or Enterprise Security design reviews and security assurance.
- Experience automating processes or using AI tooling to automate workflows and data analysis.
Pay
$172,500 - $260,100 annually (base salary); $207,800 - $285,800 annually (base salary)
Tools
Cyber Kill Chain, Diamond Model, MITRE ATT&CK, STRIDE, OWASP Top 10
AI focus
Designs and orchestrates agentic tooling to expand team analysis capabilities; AI tooling for workflow and data-analysis automation is preferred. Salesforce also uses AI to assist recruiters in candidate assessment, with humans making hiring decisions.
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