Drimva

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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First seen Oct 13, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)