Lead Security Engineer

Palo Alto, CA, United States

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Are you an experienced security professional, passionate about reducing third party risk for large enterprises? Do you get excited about working in a strategic third party security program and innovating new methods of assessment the entire industry can benefit from? Are you motivated to understand security challenges across a broad range of platforms and products?

Salesforce Proactive & Offensive Security is hiring a Security Engineer for our Third Party Security team to help assess and maintain the security of third party suppliers. In this role you will partner closely with business stakeholders, legal, and sourcing, in the selection of suppliers ensuring they meet or exceed Salesforce security requirements. You will conduct security assessments of third parties and participate in third party security reviews after security events. You will also have the opportunity to share your knowledge through internal events, conferences, and writing knowledge articles and research papers.

Salesforce is looking for an experienced and proactive security professional who can bring new ideas to an established program, and who is all about working for an innovative, forward thinking security team that seeks continuous improvement.

Primary Responsibilities:

Lead by performing in-depth and high quality security assessments of third parties, incorporating penetration test results, tooling scans, and audit findings into a comprehensive picture of supplier security maturity.

Define and perform security assessments on emerging technologies provided by third parties.

Provide guidance to team members and prospective suppliers on Salesforce security requirements including remediation advice and potential feature enhancements.

Review security language in supplier contracts and provide guidance aligned with security requirements.

Build cross-functional partnerships with departments including Business, Sourcing, Legal, and Business Technology.

Use your writing and presentation skills to communicate at all levels in the organizations. Possess the ability to communicate concisely, clearly, and intelligently to partners from a variety of backgrounds, including those who are non-technical.

Minimum Qualifications:

8+ years work experience in a security role

Previous experience with large enterprise third party security programs

Experience determining security maturity of third parties and developing security risk profiles

Knowledge of NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) and/or ISO 27001/2 security controls

Excellent written and oral communication skills, including experience presenting to executive management.

Execution oriented, results-driven, and a self-motivator

Excellent interpersonal, relationship, collaboration and influencing skills

Excellent critical-thinking and organizational skills

Preferred Qualifications:

Familiarity with standard security certifications such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, and PCI DSS.

Knowledge of OWASP Top 10 and CWE Top 25.

Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK Framework

Relevant BA/BS degree and/or certifications (e.g., CRISC, CISSP, CCIE, CISM, CISA, CCSK)

Experience reviewing and editing security related contract language.

Experience with third party security reporting

Experience defining and communicating security remediation tasks to project and data owners

Experience working with non-technical teams to identify technical details, risk factors, and project scope

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