Description
Salesforce is seeking a proactive and skilled Software Security Engineer to join our GCP team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for enhancing our security posture across various domains, focusing on development, vulnerability management, infrastructure security, and the security of distributed and scalable distributed systems.
As a Software Security Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in securing our distributed micro-services architecture on GCP, moving security by building automated, high-performance tools that empower our entire engineering organization.
Your Impact:
- Build and integrate high-performance security tools and custom scripts into our CI/CD pipelines (SAST/DAST, SCA, SIEM) to automate manual toil.
- Develop and secure Terraform/IaC templates to ensure our cloud infrastructure is hardened by design before it ever reaches production.
- Lead the end-to-end vulnerability lifecycle, using a risk-based approach to prioritize remediation across network, cloud, and application layers.
- Partner with DevOps and Product teams to conduct threat modeling and architectural reviews, ensuring new features are resilient and scalable.
- Act as the technical lead for audits (SOC2, ISO 27001), leveraging automation to provide evidence of consistent monitoring and timely closure of risks.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex security issues in production using distributed tracing and modern monitoring tools.
Required Skills:
- 2+ years of experience in Security Engineering with a focus on building tools, not just managing them.
- Strong experience in Go, Java, or Python with a solid grasp of Object-Oriented Programming and automation.
- Deep experience with GCP and Terraform for managing cloud security posture (CSPM) and infrastructure.
- Practical experience with network protocols, OS hardening (Linux), and modern attack vectors.
- A desire to work cross-functionally with DevOps to embed security into the SDLC.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience in secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices.
- Familiarity with container security technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with developing or contributing to open source tools.
The typical base salary range for this position is $117,200 - $260,100 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $141,200 - $285,800 annually.