Senior Offensive Security Engineer (Red Team)

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
• Incident Response teams during simulated incidents
• 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.
• Required Qualifications
• 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.
• Unleash Your Potential
• Accommodations
• If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form .
• Posting Statement

Additional Information

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 a Senior Offensive Security Engineer (Red Team) with a strong, hands-on attacker mindset to execute advanced offensive security operations across our products, platforms, and enterprise environment. This role is highly execution-focused. You 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. You will play a key role in translating red team operations into actionable insights that improve prevention, detection, and response capabilities across the organization.

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