Offensive Security Researcher

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To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job Category Product Job Details About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. We are looking for an Offensive Security Researcher with an attacker mindset to discover, analyze, and remediate security vulnerabilities across our products and platforms. This role focuses on identifying root causes, architectural weaknesses, and recurring security anti-patterns, and implementing secure-by-default solutions that prevent vulnerabilities. You will work alongside engineering teams to analyze design decisions, improve security posture, and support overall application security maturity. Key Responsibilities • Conduct offensive security assessments (manual testing, code review, architectural analysis, threat modeling) across application ecosystems. • Identify critical, high-impact, and systemic vulnerabilities alongside isolated issues. • Perform security research to identify emerging attack vectors, abuse cases, and bypass techniques relevant to our applications and platforms. • Partner closely with software engineers, tech leads, and architects to: • Explain risk, impact, and exploitability. • Design and implement effective remediations. • Ensure fixes are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with engineering realities. • Execute Secure by Default initiatives by: • Applying security guardrails, patterns, and baseline controls. • Remediating insecure defaults and unsafe configurations. • Preventing vulnerabilities through platform-level and framework-level updates. • Review application and platform designs early in the development lifecycle to prevent vulnerabilities before release. • Apply security standards, best practices, and architectural guidance during application development. • Share security knowledge and offensive techniques with engineering teams. • Collaborate with detection, monitoring, and incident response teams to improve visibility into real-world exploitation. Required Qualifications • 3+ years of experience in Application Security or Offensive Security with an attacker mindset. • Demonstrated experience finding and remediating vulnerabilities in complex applications. • Strong understanding of: • Web application security (OWASP Top 10 and beyond) • Authentication & authorization flaws • API security • Injection attacks, logic flaws, and access control bypasses • Secure design and threat modeling • Hands-on experience with manual security testing (beyond automated tools). • Ability to translate complex security findings into clear, actionable guidance for engineers. • Strong communication and collaboration skills with engineering teams. Preferred Qualifications • Published security research or CVEs (technical blogs, advisories, whitepapers, or conference presentations). • Experience implementing platform-level or framework-level security improvements. • Background in vulnerability discovery, security research, or red teaming. • Experience implementing Secure by Default or security-by-design concepts. • Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, microservices, and distri

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