Senior Offensive Security Engineer (Red Team)

Salesforce•Herndon, MD

1d•$148,500 - $223,900

About The Position

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Offensive Security Engineer (Red Team) with a strong, hands-on attacker mindset to execute advanced offensive security operations across its products, platforms, and enterprise environment. This role is highly execution-focused. The engineer will work closely with the Red Team Director to design and carry out real-world adversary simulations, uncover high-impact attack paths, and validate how weaknesses can be chained to achieve meaningful attacker objectives. The emphasis is on real exploitation, depth, and impact, not checklist-driven testing. The role is key in translating red team operations into actionable insights that improve prevention, detection, and response capabilities across the organization.

Requirements

Deep hands-on experience in offensive security, red teaming, or high-impact penetration testing.
Proven experience executing complex offensive engagements in production-like environments.
Strong understanding of: Adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), Identity and access abuse, Application and infrastructure attack chains, Cloud and hybrid enterprise attack surfaces.
Hands-on experience with: Manual exploitation and attack chaining, Writing custom scripts, tooling, or payloads, Bypassing security controls and detections.
Ability to clearly articulate: How attacks were performed, Why defenses failed, What mitigations will meaningfully reduce risk.
Strong communication skills and experience collaborating with security and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

Execute hands-on red team operations simulating real-world threat actors across applications, platforms, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise environments.
Identify, exploit, and chain high-impact vulnerabilities and weaknesses to achieve defined attacker goals.
Perform advanced offensive activities, including: Manual exploitation and attack chaining, Abuse of identity, authorization, and trust relationships, Bypassing security controls and detections.
Contribute to the design and execution of end-to-end attack campaigns under the guidance of the Red Team Director.
Develop a deep understanding of products and systems through the lens of adversary abuse and exploitation.
Collaborate closely with Detection & Response teams to test alerts, visibility, and response workflows.
Collaborate with Incident Response teams during simulated incidents.
Collaborate with Engineering and platform teams to explain exploitation paths and root causes.
Produce clear, technically detailed findings that translate into actionable remediation guidance.
Contribute to tooling, automation, and tradecraft improvements, including collaboration with the AI-Automation team.
Share knowledge and mentor junior red team engineers, helping raise overall tradecraft quality.