Platform Defense And Safety Engineer

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Job Category

Enterprise Technology & Infrastructure

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 were looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforces core values at the heart of it all.

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We are looking for curious individuals who are dedicated to identifying abusers who commit fraud and/or leverage our services to make the Internet a hostile space. You are the right person for this job if you understand spamming, malicious websites, phishing, and a plethora of other inappropriate ways that Internet Threat Actors will take advantage. You don’t want to play whack-a-mole; you want to automate tedious work away and break bad actors business models. You are completely comfortable using Splunk for investigations, and know that progress itself is more important than perfection. We are looking for our next team member to join us in this fast-paced environment at Salesforce.

At our core, the Platform Defense and Safety team works to detect and respond to malicious user activity (misuse, abuse, crime, etc) when everything is working “as designed”. At any moment in time, multiple actors are attempting to bypass detection and response systems, masquerading as customers in order to take unfair advantage of our systems and services. Different from the full compromise scenarios we know and love, abuse is a slow simmering burn, where some of our users can become a problem.

Responsibilities

• Abuse Detection and Response: Review, triage, investigate, and respond to abuse reports and detections impacting Salesforce products, such as Sales Cloud and Marketing Cloud.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Work collaboratively with Salesforce product teams to manage third-party report escalations, and across diverse teams to achieve organizational goals.
• Threat Analysis: Maintain a deep understanding of threats and threat actors in the online abuse landscape, particularly those exploiting systems as designed.
• Innovation in Abuse Mitigation: Identify, articulate, and document opportunities for innovation in platform abuse detection, mitigation, and response tooling.
• Stay Informed on Cyber Crime Trends: Continuously monitor emerging trends in cyber crime and online fraud.
• Documentation and Playbooks: Contribute to the development and maintenance of team playbooks and documentation.
• Crisis Management: Demonstrate the ability to take thoughtful and deliberate action in stressful crisis situations.
• Represent Anti-Abuse Efforts: Act as a public face of anti-abuse initiatives at Salesforce.
  
  

Requirement

• 5+ years demonstrated working experience in the following Information Security domains: product/platform abuse, threat intelligence, incident response, trust and safety, and/or threat detection
• Alternatively, experience in a customer-facing technical support role interacting with any of the above
• Expertise in Product Abuse detection, mitigation, and response
• Demonstrated working experience writing documentation, such as team runbooks
• Experience leveraging Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and commercial security tools to support investigations
• Proficient in email header analysis to investigate reports of email spam and phishing
• Proficient using Splunk for investigations and to create detections/dashboards
• Proficient with Python, especially demonstrated experience using Python notebooks
• Experience building Security Orchestration and Response (SOAR) Playbooks
• Experience analyzing large and complex data sets
• Experience using various Salesforce products
• Proficient using Version Control Systems, and GitHub
  
  

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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