Senior Platform Trust and Safety Engineer

Salesforce•Bellevue, WA

1d•$148,500 - $223,900

About The Position

Salesforce is seeking a Platform Trust and Safety Engineer dedicated to identifying and stopping abusers who commit fraud, phishing, and account takeover, or who otherwise use our services to make the internet a hostile space. The Platform Defense and Safety (PDS) team detects and responds to malicious user activity — misuse, abuse, fraud, and crime — that occurs even when our systems are working as designed. Bad actors attempt to bypass detection and response systems by posing as legitimate customers to take unfair advantage of our services. Unlike account compromise, abuse tends to be a slow, simmering problem rather than a single event.

Requirements

Extensive experience in information security roles involving platform abuse, threat intelligence, incident response, or threat detection
Experience managing security or abuse investigations end to end: triage, evidence collection, risk assessment, containment, escalation, and closure
Specialization in at least one of: log analysis, file-level forensics, or data mining
Experience authoring detection rules using languages such as YARA or Splunk SPL, and comfort working from a command line
Track emerging trends in digital crime, merchant fraud, and abuse of AI/agentic capabilities
Write and maintain clear playbooks, SOPs, and postmortems that drive continuous improvement
Collaborate easily across teams — including Product Security Advisors, engineering, and product teams — and can contribute to platform abuse threat modeling
Comfortable participating in an on-call rotation

Nice To Haves

Can quickly and effectively understand someone else's code
Extensive experience using Splunk for detection engineering and SPL rule authoring
Worked with threat intelligence tools or teams
Experience with workflow orchestration or automation platforms (e.g., Temporal)
Worked in a customer-facing role (Support, Sales Engineering, etc.)
Familiar with evidence handling, privacy, data retention, and regulatory considerations relevant to security investigations
Understand cloud/SaaS security concepts, multi-tenant platforms, identity systems, and application telemetry
Experience analyzing large, complex data sets, and familiarity with Git/GitHub and the Salesforce platform (Cases, SOQL)

Responsibilities

Review, triage, and respond to external and internal abuse reports across Core CRM and Marketing Cloud, with an eye toward expanding into new products
Build and tune detection and response rules in Splunk, and author and maintain automated response playbooks
Partner with our Office of Ethical Usage and Legal teams — including on regulatory reporting such as the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) — to keep our platforms free of malicious content
Identify and document anti-abuse tooling requirements for engineering teams, and evaluate third-party vendor tools to close detection gaps