Salesforce
Offensive Security Engineer - Red Team
$117K–$246K
California - San Francisco +1 · Office Tech-Flexible · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Location
- California - San Francisco
Washington - Bellevue - Experience
- 3+ years; red teaming, penetration testing, or adversary simulation.
About the job
Conduct end-to-end red team operations across Salesforce products, platforms, and enterprise environments, including testing AI-driven systems and helping teams remediate security weaknesses.
What you'll do
- Design and execute adversary simulations, using threat intelligence to emulate threat actors and adapt to defenders’ responses.
- Find and chain vulnerabilities across application, identity, cloud, and enterprise environments; develop custom tooling, payloads, and techniques.
- Partner with security and engineering teams on campaign design, purple team exercises, remediation, and communicating findings; mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in red teaming, penetration testing, or adversary simulation, including end-to-end attack campaigns.
- Experience with manual exploitation, attack chaining, and custom exploit, tooling, or payload development.
- Working knowledge of threat actor TTPs and identity, application, cloud, and hybrid enterprise attack surfaces.
- Experience bypassing layered security controls and detections, and documenting findings and remediation guidance for technical and executive audiences.
Nice to have
- Published security research; assumed-breach or long-running adversary emulation campaigns; collaboration with Detection and Response or purple team functions.
- Malware analysis or exploit development background; familiarity with cloud-native architectures and identity-centric security models; offensive security certifications listed in the posting.
Pay
$117,200 - $223,900 annually (base salary); $141,200 - $246,000 annually (base salary)
Tools
Agentforce
AI focus
Test how attackers could abuse AI-driven systems and use AI tools to accelerate scoping, documentation, and reporting.
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