Salesforce
Senior Director, Security Analytics
$218K–$365K
Washington - Bellevue +1 · Office Tech-Flexible · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Location
- Washington - Bellevue
Virginia - Mclean - Experience
- 10+ years; experience in security data science, machine learning engineering, or building customer-facing security analytics products at scale.
About the job
Leads the strategy, development, and operation of customer-facing security analytics and machine learning capabilities to detect and contain threats across Salesforce products and SaaS environments.
What you'll do
- Own the security analytics roadmap for AI product defense, identity, network, and API threat prevention.
- Build safeguards against AI attacks and analytics with automated threat containment.
- Lead a specialist team and partner with product, engineering, UX, and executives on security insights, dashboards, and performance reporting.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in security data science, machine learning engineering, or customer-facing security analytics at scale, including production ML models for commercial platforms in multi-tenant SaaS.
- Strong knowledge of security data science/ML challenges, including imbalanced datasets, cold-start tenant models, adversarial ML evasion, and model explainability.
- Experience working with Product, Engineering, and Incident Response teams to deliver automated threat containment and align senior leadership.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for explaining statistical modeling and AI security to executives and customers.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Spark, Flink, Kafka, or Databricks.
- Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Scikit-Learn.
Pay
USD $218,400 - $365,200 annually (base salary)
Tools
Spark, Flink, Kafka, Databricks, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn
AI focus
Builds ML-based customer security products and safeguards against AI-specific attacks, including prompt injection, model inversion, data poisoning, and LLM data exfiltration.
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