Principal Threat Detection Engineer

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Principal Threat Detection Engineer

Job description
You will be responsible for the lifecycle of threat detection in this role. You will write logic on a wide variety of security platforms to detect malicious activity in various stages of the attack lifecycle. You will build attack simulation scenarios, reproduce attack scenarios, and test the effectiveness of yours and your peers logic. You will also partner with the engineering teams to develop technology that enables this work. You will closely collaborate with the incident response team to improve the reliability and quality of alerts. Your technical skills, collaboration and teamwork will help to ensure that our detection system works well to Secure Salesforce and its customers. If you want to solve interesting challenges in threat detection and some unique cyber security challenges this is the place you want to be in.

As a Principal Security Engineer, you will take on complete ownership of a technical area, responsible for delivering all necessary research and features to achieve our team’s goals in that area. You will work across teams in multiple geographies to deliver on initiatives with many moving parts. You will also have the opportunity to lead broad initiatives that go beyond our own work. We value innovation and expect everyone to innovate and come up with creative ways to solve the problems that we and our customers face.
We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good– you’ve come to the right place.

In the Principal Threat Detection Engineer role, you will be responsible for the lifecycle of threat detection. You will write logic on a wide variety of security platforms to detect malicious activity in various stages of the attack lifecycle. You will build attack simulation scenarios, reproduce attack scenarios, and test the effectiveness of yours and your peers logic. You will also partner with the engineering teams to develop technology that enables this work. You will closely collaborate with the incident response team to improve the reliability and quality of alerts. Your technical skills, collaboration and teamwork will help to ensure that our detection system works well to Secure Salesforce and its customers. If you want to solve interesting challenges in threat detection and some unique cyber security challenges this is the place you want to be in.

As a Principal Security Engineer, you will take on complete ownership of a technical area, responsible for delivering all necessary research and features to achieve our team’s goals in that area. You will work across teams in multiple geographies to deliver on initiatives with many moving parts. You will also have the opportunity to lead broad initiatives that go beyond our own work. We value innovation and expect everyone to innovate and come up with creative ways to solve the problems that we and our customers face.
 

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