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Job Summary:
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where innovation and customer success are at the forefront. As a Senior Threat Detection Engineer, you will take ownership of technical areas, leading initiatives to enhance threat detection and collaborate across teams to ensure security for Salesforce's infrastructure and customers.
Responsibilities:
• The Threat Detection team is responsible for detecting attacks against Salesforce's infrastructure, products, employees, and customers.
• The team collaborates with CSIRT and engineering teams to enhance detection effectiveness.
• The role involves writing logic on security platforms to detect malicious activity, building attack simulation scenarios, and testing logic effectiveness.
• Collaboration with the incident response team is essential to improve alert reliability and quality.
• As a Senior Threat Detection Engineer,, you will be responsible to lead a project end to end owning a technical area, and delivering research and features.
• In this role you will be working security organization wide initiatives and cross-team collaboration are expected working with multiple engineering teams is required.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 6 to 8 years of experience in relevant areas like in Threat Detection, Threat Hunting, Security Incident Response, and managing significant security incidents and breaches.
• Experience and expertise in developing and refining threat detection methodologies is a prerequisite.
• Proficiency in leveraging security logs from multiple log source types which includes network infrastructure, endpoint devices, public and private cloud substrates and SaaS.
• A comprehensive grasp of log structure, data normalization techniques, and the capacity to isolate critical security incidents is imperative.
• Strong proficiency and experience in log correlation techniques to identify patterns and anomalies indicative of malicious activity.
• Demonstrate expertise in constructing complex search queries using languages such as SPL, YARAL and other query languages to analyze large volumes of data.
• Possess strong data analysis skills to interpret query results, identify false positives, and fine-tune detection rules for optimal efficacy.
• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of fundamental security principles, common attack vectors employed by threat actors, Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) used throughout the cyber kill chain, and relevant security frameworks such as the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Possess practical experience in working with a variety of security tools and technologies, including Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems for centralized log analysis and alerting, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions for endpoint visibility and threat mitigation, Network Detection and Response (NDR) tools for network traffic analysis and anomaly detection, and Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) platforms for automating incident response workflows.
• Demonstrate the ability to effectively handle and analyze large and complex datasets, identifying meaningful security insights and trends from vast amounts of information.
• Knowledge of writing detections based on network, host, OS, and other logs.
• Experience with correlation and complex log analytic queries.
• Coding experience with Python or other languages for automation.
• Ability to correlate multiple log sources for effective adversary detection.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating across global, cross-functional teams with members in multiple time zones, with the ability to communicate and coordinate effectively across geographically distributed environments.
• A related technical degree required.
Preferred:
• Hands on experience with any log aggregation/SIEM tool such as and not limited to Splunk, Elastic (ELK), FLINK, Chronicle etc
• Hands on Experience with public cloud, such as AWS or Azure or GCP, especially Public cloud security.
• Undergraduate degree in cyber security, computer science, information technology, or similar subjects.
• Experience working in a globally distributed team leveraging documentation and async communications as needed
• Prior experience or basic knowledge on DS algorithms and methodologies
• Experience on automation platform such as SOAR
Company:
Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications. Founded in 1999, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.