Enterprise Application Security Engineer

About Salesforce

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About Our Team

Enterprise Security secures our enterprise environment that serves our rapidly growing workforce! As a Senior Enterprise Application Security Engineer, you will partner closely with technology and business partners to understand their objectives, identify threats, and scale our enterprise security programs. You will collaborate with our Business and IT organizations and champion security requirements in the selection, development, and integration of a wide range of technologies. You will also have the opportunity to identify emerging threats and design new processes that balance security and business agility across Salesforce!

What You Will Be Doing

• Perform full stack security assessments (such as architecture and design reviews, code reviews, and penetration tests) across a diverse and sophisticated range of environments including: Web applications/SaaS applications, Operating system and hardware platforms (server and client endpoints, mobile and other embedded devices), Network infrastructure (switches, routers, wireless access points, load balancers, firewalls, VPN, SDN, cloud), Authentication and authorization services (SAML, OAuth, Radius, Kerberos), Public cloud infrastructure platforms and technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform), Middleware and API services.
• Threat model common attacker methods to develop appropriate mitigation techniques, providing guidance that balances security requirements with functional requirements.
• Develop automated processes and support improvement of tooling to identify and solve problems at scale.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and business partners to drive solutions through a secure development lifecycle.
• Define and develop technical security standards and guidelines with business partners.
• Research new technologies, emerging threats, and vulnerabilities for strategic planning and process improvements.

What You Should Have

• 2-4 years of experience in a security role with a focus on application and network security, penetration testing, security engineering, infrastructure engineering, threat modeling, red team operations, firewall/access control technologies, risk management, and/or endpoint security controls.
• Knowledge of key areas pertaining to security such as common network security models and protocols, application security, methods of resolving integrity and providing confidentiality, operating systems internals and vulnerabilities, public key infrastructure and digital certificates, and exploit mitigation techniques.
• Hands-on experience performing security assessments with common tools such as BurpSuite, Nexpose, Nessus, Metasploit, and Nmap.
• Experience performing manual and tool-assisted code reviews (Java, JavaScript, Python, and other languages).
• Experience designing solutions and/or performing security assessments in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work as a team and collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders.

Bonus Points

• Confirmed scripting experience in one or more of these languages: Bash, PowerShell, Python, Java, JavaScript / NodeJS.
• Security certification such as OSCP, OSEP, GCIH, GCIA, GPEN, GWAPT, GMOB, GPPA, CCNP, CCNP Security, CCIE Security.
• Knowledge of development and security practices on the Salesforce platform, Heroku, Slack, Mulesoft, and/or Tableau.

Key skills/competency

• Application Security
• Penetration Testing
• Threat Modeling
• Cloud Security
• Security Engineering
• Code Review
• Network Security
• Risk Management
• AWS
• Scripting