Sr. Security Software Engineer, Vulnerability Management - Slack

About the role

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Vulnerability Management team. This role is part of Agentforce, which drives innovation and better business outcomes through AI.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the technical architecture for vulnerability management tooling, including systems that automate identification, prioritization, tracking, and remediation of vulnerabilities.
• Design and develop high-quality, scalable engineering solutions, balancing long-term maintainability with the practical needs of a fast-moving security organization.
• Drive integration strategy across vulnerability scanners, aggregation pipelines, and downstream systems, making principled decisions about data ownership, tool consolidation, and signal quality.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders including infrastructure, platform engineering, and product security teams to identify opportunities to embed security automation deeper into the development lifecycle.
• Identify systemic gaps and ambiguous, high-priority problems that cut across team boundaries, propose solutions, and drive them to completion with or without direct authority.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency (Green Card holder).
• 6+ years of industry software engineering experience, with a meaningful portion of that spent in security engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure-adjacent domains.
• Deep proficiency in Python, with a strong track record of writing production-grade, tested, maintainable code in complex systems.
• Experience owning and delivering end-to-end engineering projects, from early-stage design through production deployment and ongoing operation.
• Solid understanding of vulnerability management concepts, including how vulnerabilities are discovered, classified, prioritized, and remediated in enterprise environments.
• Experience building or maintaining integrations with security tooling such as vulnerability scanners, SIEM systems, or similar platforms.
• Comfort working with CI/CD pipelines, version control workflows, and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience working across teams and communicating technical concepts clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong judgment in the face of ambiguity, and a track record of asking the right questions before building rather than after.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with vulnerability management tooling such as Wiz, Tenable/Nessus, Twistlock, or similar products, particularly in cloud or containerized environments.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks relevant to government or regulated environments, such as FedRAMP or DoD IL5/IL6.
• Experience working with large-scale vulnerability aggregation systems or homegrown data pipelines that normalize findings across multiple scanners.
• Background in building automated remediation workflows, such as automated PR generation for dependency vulnerabilities or patch orchestration across diverse package ecosystems.
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerized workloads at scale.
• Contributions to the security or software community through open-source projects, published research, conference talks, or similar.

Skills

• Python programming skills.
• Experience with vulnerability management tools and frameworks.
• Understanding of cloud and containerized environments.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.

Benefits

At Salesforce, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Time off programs
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Mental health support
• Life and disability insurance
• 401(k)
• Employee stock purchasing program

Pay

The typical base salary range for this position is $172,500 - $260,100 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range is $207,800 - $285,800 annually.

Schedule

This is a full-time position.