{"id":1735893,"url":"https://alion.io/job/salesforce-principal-product-security-engineer","title":"Principal Product Security Engineer","company":{"id":70,"name":"Salesforce","domain":"salesforce.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/salesforce","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":84,"open_postings":394,"ghost_share":0.013,"stale_share":0.586,"repost_share":0.053,"time_to_fill_p50_days":22,"computed_at":"2026-10-13T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Security","role_family":"Security","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":172500,"max":313700,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":313700},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agentforce","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"FedRAMP","optional":true},{"name":"NIST CSF","optional":true},{"name":"SOC 2","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-02","last_verified_at":"2026-10-13T01:15:14Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":11,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":11},"description":"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.\nJob Category\nProductJob Details\nAbout Salesforce\nSalesforce 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.\nReady 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.\nJob Title: Principal Engineer, Product Security\nThe Experience\nThe Product Security team sits within Trust & Security, partnering closely with engineering across Salesforce's fastest-growing cloud products - spanning AI-driven automation, data platforms, and core enterprise services. We act as the last line of defense before features reach customers, embedding security into design rather than patching after the fact.\nWe are looking for a Principal Engineer, Product Security to serve as the dedicated security authority for several high-growth business units. You will navigate deployment models ranging from multi-tenant SaaS (Software as a Service) to restricted public-sector and private-cloud architectures, build security programs where none exist today, and secure next-generation AI and large language model (LLM) features. This is a hands-on technical role: you'll review architecture, model threats, read code, and advise engineering leadership directly on risk.\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nDefine and execute the end-to-end product security strategy for assigned business units, building scalable, repeatable review processes where none currently exist.\nConduct architecture reviews and threat models for complex cloud environments, data platforms, and regulated public-sector deployments.\nReview code, system integrations, and AI/LLM gateways directly to identify vulnerabilities and design flaws.\nAdvise engineering leadership on security risk, including recommending a delay to General Availability (GA) when critical requirements are unmet.\nRequired Qualifications\n7-10+ years of hands-on experience in a Product Security, Application Security, or Security Architecture role.\nDemonstrated experience across Application Security, Cloud Security, and Data Security, including how these domains interact in practice.\nA track record of building and scaling a security program from the ground up, documented through specific projects you led.\nExperience reviewing source code and complex data architectures as part of a security assessment.\n Preferred Qualifications\nExperience securing AI/LLM infrastructure, including prompt processing, data boundaries, and AI-specific threat mitigation.\nExperience securing large-scale data platforms or system integration pipelines.\nExperience building software for regulated environments such as private-cloud, GovCloud (Government Cloud), or FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) deployments.\nFamiliarity with security frameworks such as FedRAMP, SOC 2 (Service Organization Control 2), or NIST CSF (National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework).\nThis candidate must be a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized) who does not hold dual citizenship and agrees to complete a U.S. federal government Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) for a Moderate Public Trust position.Unleash Your Potential\nWhen you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance andbe your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you cando 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.\nAccommodations\nIf you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form.\nPlease note that Salesforce uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help our recruiters assess and evaluate candidates’ resumes and qualifications throughout the recruiting process. Humans will always make any candidate selection and hiring decisions. Please see our Candidate Privacy Statement for more information about how we use your personal data and your rights, including with regard to use of AI tools and opt out options.\nPosting Statement\nSalesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications - without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.\nIn the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.\n\nThe typical base salary range for this position is $172,500 - $313,700 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $207,800 - $344,700 annually.\n\nThe range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7329,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"phd","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Marketing Automation","AI Agents","Team Communication & Collaboration","Customer Support & Help Desk Software"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-03T01:02:21Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":52,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.578,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":11,"expected_fill_days":22,"reasons":["conf:4","stale_co","velocity","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-13T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":313700,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/salesforce-principal-product-security-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/salesforce-principal-product-security-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-13T16:03:33Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":24381,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-14T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":70},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=70"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsalesforce-principal-product-security-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsalesforce-principal-product-security-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsalesforce-principal-product-security-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/salesforce-principal-product-security-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsalesforce-principal-product-security-engineer"}]}