Salesforce

Senior Offensive Security Engineer (Red Team)

Salesforce$148K — $223K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Deep hands-on experience in offensive security or red teaming.
  • Proven track record of executing complex offensive engagements.
  • Strong understanding of adversary tactics and techniques.
  • Experience with application and infrastructure attack chains.
  • Ability to write custom scripts or tools for exploitation.

Responsibilities

  • Execute advanced red team operations simulating real-world threats.
  • Identify and exploit high-impact vulnerabilities to achieve attacker goals.
  • Perform manual exploitation and abuse of identity and trust relationships.
  • Collaborate with detection and incident response teams during simulations.
  • Produce clear findings that translate into actionable remediation guidance.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge offensive security operations.
  • Close collaboration with senior leadership including the Red Team Director.
  • Access to mentorship and development opportunities for junior team members.
  • Involvement in tooling and automation improvements with AI teams.
Full Job Description
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. Key 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. The typical base salary range for this position is $148,500 - $223,900 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.

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