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The Product Security team is responsible for the product security efforts for Salesforce products. We're looking for dedicated security engineers, who are authorities in multiple security domains and are able to act as technical lead for strategic product security efforts, and are able to influence security direction of existing and new products.

Lightning Platform Skills group is responsible for product security needs of several Products/Business Units including Core Salesforce UI, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Customer 360, Blockchain Platform, and more. We make ourselves available at every stage in the software development lifecycle, facilitating secure design choices without sacrificing the usability of our products.

You'll own product security effort for several engineering teams within one or more business units. At this time, we are looking for individuals with strong focus on Sales Cloud and Salesforce Core UI business units. You will work closely with our engineering teams to scope and implement application security reviews throughout the development cycle, including architecture reviews and threat models, secure code reviews, and platform and application penetration testing. You'll be expected to be an SME and lead strategic product security initiatives for all the products supported by the team, learn about multiple products, work with engineering architects, and product organization to build secure products.

Key responsibilities

• Influences and/or defines product security strategy for multiple business units and products.
• Partners closely with engineering, and product organization to drive strategic security initiatives.
• Act as an authority for multiple security domains, and mentor junior team members to drive the critical initiatives for you.
• Scope and perform application security reviews of our full stack: web applications, APIs, and platform architectures.
• Provide our engineers with well-researched security advice to demonstrate vulnerabilities and provide secure development guidance.
• Assist in the triage of vulnerabilities that are found internally, privately or publicly disclosed, or reported through our bug bounty program.
• Produce research and collaborate with our peers in the broader infosec and public cloud communities and industries.
• Constantly question existing security practices and routines, and update, replace, or automate them.
• Write and promote secure development practices for our engineers.

Key competencies

• Hard-working, hard-working, and independent.
• Strong influencer with a validated ability to build deep relationships and getting this done without authority.
• Hands-on experience in driving the security efforts for multiple complex and large scale, multi-functional projects.
• Be able to act as a multiplier via junior team members to accomplish more than the sum total of individual efforts.
• Deep experience with performing threat modeling and architecture reviews.
• Capability to look at the big picture/architecture and propose strategic security solutions.
• Experience with black box, grey box, and white box security testing of applications, including manual secure code review.
• Experience with public cloud infrastructure security protections and weaknesses
• Strong working knowledge of web application development and architecture, HTTP, and TLS.
• Scripting skills (our primary languages are Ruby, Python, Go, and Elixir, but we'll happily speak to candidates with other language backgrounds.)
• Strong grasp of practical cryptography usage, able to recommend the best approach for storage, transport and identity purposes, specifically in the realm of public cloud.
• Offensive mentality and the ability to think of and consider abuse and attack paths as well as the defensive attitude to think of recommendations to prevent them.
• Enthusiastic and quick learning of complex systems and poorly-documented open source software.
• Comfortable working with continuous integration/delivery and agile development teams.

Technologies

Strong candidates will have worked with some of these and/or similar technologies:

• The UI Security role needs deep JavaScript and Browser Security understanding.
• Application Security tools like Burp, OWASP ZAP, brakeman, and other DAST and SAST tools.
• Security features in container and container orchestration technologies (LXC, Docker, Kubernetes, gvisor).
• Languages - one or more of: Ruby, Python, Java, Go, Shell, JavaScript, both for performing code reviews and creating your own scripts and tooling (fuzzers, scanners, etc.).
• Modern web technologies - Ember.js, Angular, React+Redux, GraphQL, Socket.io/Websockets.

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