Senior Threat Assessment Engineer

Benefits

Parental leave

26 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Non-birth-parent leave

12 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Family-building benefits

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Verification

Source-linked checked May 7, 2026

Salary

$179K-$246K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

401(k) match

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

82% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Senior From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Schedule

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Company

Equity

Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Senior Threat Assessment Engineer California - San Francisco; Washington - Seattle Overview of the Role: As a Senior Threat Assessment Engineer on the Environmental Threat Assessment team, you will utilize the threat (and detection/response) perspective to lead independent assessments into new M&As, major product releases, incident uplifts, etc to identify and mitigate exploitable vectors. You will collaborate with peers across intelligence, detection, and response functions to drive uplifts and scale our capabilities through automation and "agentic" security investments. Your work will directly shape Salesforce's security posture by translating technical research into actionable requirements for Product & Enterprise Security partners and Product/Engineering stakeholders. Responsibilities: Conducting threat modeling for infrastructure and application-level threat scenarios, including security architecture and interactions, and new products/features from a realized threat and “outside-in” perspective. Create onboarding strategy of all new M&As into Cyber Security Operations across assessments, log prioritization and onboarding, and detection and security tool validation. Utilizing threat intelligence, incident response data, detection and logging metrics, and visibility from proprietary security tooling to conduct and correlate research. Assessing cloud security controls and cloud architecture implementations across current businesses and future business units, primarily across AWS, GCP, and Azure substrates. Analyzing logs from endpoint, network, and other security tooling to identify potential gaps in coverage or hunting for bypassing of existing controls. Engaging executive stakeholders across the company to translate assessments into actionable recommendations that shape the business and our products. Providing strategic and tactical applied threat insights to Security and leadership stakeholders by contextualizing intelligence in

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