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Staff Security Software Engineer, Vulnerability Management - Slack

Salesforce • $197K — $313K *
San Francisco, CA 94112In-Person
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Reposted 2 days ago
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Qualifications

  • U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency required, visa sponsorship not available.
  • 8+ years in software engineering, with significant experience in security or infrastructure-related domains.
  • Expertise in Python with proven ability to write high-quality, maintainable code.
  • Experience managing full-cycle engineering projects from design to production.
  • Understanding of vulnerability management life cycle and processes in enterprise environments.
  • Experience integrating with security tools such as scanners and SIEM systems.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD practices and version control workflows.
  • Effective communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

  • Own the architecture and roadmap for vulnerability management tooling.
  • Lead the design and development of scalable engineering solutions that align with security goals.
  • Drive integration strategy for security tools and systems, ensuring data quality and ownership.
  • Define metrics to assess program effectiveness, focusing on risk-based measures.
  • Collaborate with teams to find opportunities for deeper security automation.
  • Identify and address critical gaps in processes, guiding solutions to completion.
  • Provide mentorship and reviews to enhance engineering standards within the team.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
  • 401(k) plan with employer matching contributions.
  • Generous paid time off and holiday schedule.
  • Flexible working arrangements.
  • Professional development opportunities and ongoing training.
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Job Category
Software Engineering

Job Details

What you will be doing

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Vulnerability Management team, you will serve as a technical anchor for a team that builds and maintains the systems and tooling we rely on to detect, track, and remediate security vulnerabilities across our organization. You will drive technical strategy for how we automate and scale vulnerability management, work closely with security engineers, product teams, and infrastructure partners to tackle complex cross-functional challenges, and help raise the bar for how the team builds software. This is a high-impact, high-ownership role for someone who wants to do meaningful engineering work while shaping how security gets done at scale.

Key Responsibilities
  • Own the technical architecture and roadmap for vulnerability management tooling, including systems that automate identification, prioritization, tracking, and remediation of vulnerabilities across diverse ecosystems and environments.
  • Lead the design and development of high-quality, scalable engineering solutions, balancing long-term maintainability with the practical needs of a fast-moving security organization.
  • Drive integration strategy across vulnerability scanners, aggregation pipelines, and downstream systems, making principled decisions about data ownership, tool consolidation, and signal quality.
  • Define and evolve the metrics and reporting frameworks the team uses to measure program effectiveness, moving the organization toward risk-based measurement rather than activity-based compliance tracking.
  • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders including infrastructure, platform engineering, and product security teams to identify opportunities to embed security automation deeper into the development lifecycle.
  • Identify systemic gaps and ambiguous, high-priority problems that cut across team boundaries, propose solutions, and drive them to completion with or without direct authority.
  • Provide technical mentorship, design reviews, and code reviews to engineers on the team, helping others grow and maintaining a high standard of engineering craft.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions, tooling selections, and process improvements that have lasting impact on how the broader security organization operates.

What you should have:
  • U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency (Green Card holder). We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role.
  • 8+ years of industry software engineering experience, with a meaningful portion of that spent in security engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure-adjacent domains.
  • Deep proficiency in Python, with a strong track record of writing production-grade, tested, maintainable code in complex systems.
  • Demonstrated experience owning and delivering end-to-end engineering projects, from early-stage design through production deployment and ongoing operation.
  • Experience building or maintaining integrations with security tooling such as vulnerability scanners, SIEM systems, or similar platforms.
  • Comfort working with CI/CD pipelines, version control workflows, and modern software delivery practices.
  • Experience working across teams and communicating technical concepts clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Strong judgment in the face of ambiguity, and a track record of asking the right questions before building rather than after.


Nice-to-Have:
  • Hands-on experience with vulnerability management tooling such as Wiz, Tenable/Nessus, Twistlock, or similar products, particularly in cloud or containerized environments.
  • Solid understanding of vulnerability management concepts, including how vulnerabilities are discovered, classified, prioritized, and remediated in enterprise environments.
  • Familiarity with compliance frameworks relevant to government or regulated environments, such as FedRAMP or DoD IL5/IL6.
  • Experience working with large-scale vulnerability aggregation systems or homegrown data pipelines that normalize findings across multiple scanners.
  • Background in building automated remediation workflows, such as automated PR generation for dependency vulnerabilities or patch orchestration across diverse package ecosystems.
  • Experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerized workloads at scale.
  • Contributions to the security or software community through open-source projects, published research, conference talks, or similar.


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