- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Work style
- Hybrid
- Full-time
- Pay
- $117.2k to $223.9k
At a glance
The role in plain English
This role is for an Offensive Security Engineer on Salesforce's Red Team, focused on simulating real-world attacks across the company's products and infrastructure. The position suits professionals with experience in red teaming, penetration testing, or adversary simulation. Day-to-day work involves designing and executing attack campaigns, collaborating with other security teams, and developing custom tools to test defences. The role is hybrid, based in San Francisco or Bellevue.
What you'll do
- Design and run end-to-end red team operations
- Emulate threat actors using threat intelligence
- Develop custom tooling and payloads for testing
- Collaborate with Blue and Detection teams on campaigns
- Document findings and remediation guidance
What they're looking for
Essential
- 3+ years red teaming or penetration testing experience
- Manual exploitation and attack chaining skills
- Knowledge of threat actor TTPs
- Experience with identity, application, and cloud attack surfaces
Nice to have
- Published security research or CVEs
- Experience with assumed-breach campaigns
- Malware analysis or exploit development background
- Offensive security certifications
Core skills
- Red teaming
- Penetration testing
- Threat intelligence
- Exploit development
- Cloud security
- Identity security
- Attack simulation
Certifications mentioned
- GXPN
- OSCP
- OSEP
- OSWE
- CRTO
The shape of the job
Technical depth
4/5
Pace
3/5
Ownership
4/5
Teamwork
4/5
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How the pay compares
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- 01Describe how you would design a red team campaign against a cloud-native application.
- 02How do you chain vulnerabilities across identity and application layers?
- 03Explain a time you developed a custom tool for an adversary simulation.
- 04How do you communicate technical attack findings to executive leadership?
About Salesforce
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Job Title: Offensive Security Engineer - Red Team
The Experience
- We are looking for an Offensive Security Engineer to join our Red Team, which simulates real attackers across Salesforce products, platforms, and enterprise environments. You will own complex, end-to-end adversary simulations and partner with the Red Team Director on campaign design.
- With Agentforce woven into every layer of our platform, you will test how attackers could abuse AI-driven systems. You will also use AI tools to speed up scoping, documentation, and reporting, so you can spend more time on hands-on offensive work.
- This role is based in San Francisco, CA or Bellevue, WA and is eligible for a hybrid work arrangement.
What You'll Actually Be Doing
- Design and run end-to-end red team operations that simulate real threat actors, from initial access to objective completion. Use threat intelligence to emulate specific Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups and adapt your tactics as defenders respond.
- Find, exploit, and chain weaknesses across applications, identity, cloud, and enterprise environments. Build custom tooling, payloads, and techniques that test security controls and detections.
- Work with the Red Team Director, Detection and Response, Detection Engineering, and Blue Teams on campaign design and purple team exercises. Help engineering teams understand root causes and put durable fixes in place.
- Act as the technical escalation point for complex attack paths and disputed findings, and mentor other engineers. Explain attack chains and business risk clearly to executive leadership, following all rules of engagement, scoping limits, and Operational Security (OPSEC) practices.
You're Our Person If...
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in red teaming, penetration testing, or adversary simulation, including executing end-to-end attack campaigns.
- Experience with manual exploitation, attack chaining, and custom exploit, tooling, or payload development.
- Working knowledge of threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and of identity, application, cloud, and hybrid enterprise attack surfaces.
- Experience bypassing layered security controls and detections, and documenting findings and remediation guidance for technical and executive audiences.
Even Better If...
- Published security research, such as Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) credits, blog posts, or conference talks.
- Experience with assumed-breach or long-running adversary emulation campaigns, and collaboration with Detection and Response or purple team functions.
- Malware analysis or exploit development background, and familiarity with cloud-native architectures and identity-centric security models.
- Offensive security certifications such as GIAC Exploit Researcher and Advanced Penetration Tester (GXPN), Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), Offensive Security Experienced Penetration Tester (OSEP), Offensive Security Web Expert (OSWE), Certified Red Team Operator (CRTO), or Certified Red Team Lead (CRTL).
Unleash Your Potential
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At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.

The typical base salary range for this position is $117,200 - $223,900 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $141,200 - $246,000 annually.

The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.