Salesforce

Technical Lead, Compliance Engineering & Automation

Salesforce$148K — $246K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in GRC, Cybersecurity, or Software Engineering with 3+ years in technical leadership.
  • Expertise in designing automation tools and API integrations with strong programming skills in Apex, Java, SOQL, SQL, and Python.
  • Experience in evaluating security controls and meeting PCI and SOC 2 audit requirements.
  • Proven ability to create real-time dashboards and automate reporting for executive oversight.

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute a strategic roadmap for compliance automation aligned with business targets.
  • Lead a team of compliance engineers to establish technical standards and modernize security controls.
  • Architect and implement an ecosystem for managing the compliance lifecycle automatically.
  • Collaborate with auditors and engineering teams to meet compliance standards and integrate data across domains.

Benefits

  • Support for work-life balance through extensive resources and benefits.
  • Access to AI tools and agents that enhance productivity.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and skill development.
Full Job Description

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Job Category

Enterprise Technology & Infrastructure

Job Details

The Experience

Salesforce is seeking a Technical Lead of Compliance Engineering to lead the design, deployment, and scaling of compliance automation within Product Security. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who treats compliance requirements as specifications — and builds systems to satisfy them continuously, not periodically.

You will own the technical roadmap for encoding our Common Controls Framework (CCF) control environment as software: automated evidence pipelines, policy-as-code enforcement, continuous control testing, and agentic workflows that replace manual audit processes. Your goal is to shift compliance left — embedding it into engineering systems rather than layering it on top.

What You'll Actually Be Doing

  • Design and ship a compliance-as-code platform that encodes CCF controls as versioned, testable, auditable policy artifacts — moving from document-driven compliance to code-driven compliance with a CI/CD-native workflow.

  • Lead a program along with a team of compliance engineers to build automated evidence collection pipelines that continuously gather, validate, and normalize control evidence from disparate systems (identity, cloud infra) without human touch.

  • Architect and operate continuous control monitoring — real-time dashboards backed by authoritative data pipelines, not point-in-time snapshots — giving engineering and leadership live visibility into control health and drift.

  • Deploy agentic automation (Agentforce, Claude) to handle repeatable compliance lifecycle tasks: evidence mapping, audit inquiry drafting, gap analysis, and discrepancy resolution across integrated systems.

  • Own the engineering standards and code review culture for compliance artifacts — treating policies, control definitions, and evidence schemas as production code.

  • Partner with compliance, product and engineering as a technical counterpart: translate control requirements into precise data contracts and machine-readable policy definitions that drive automated testing rather than manual review.

You're Our Person If...

  • 8+ years in compliance engineering, security engineering, or software engineering — with 3+ years leading technical teams building compliance or security automation systems.

  • Hands-on experience building automation with Apex and/or Java, Python, SQL, and SOQL; comfortable reading and writing production-grade code, not just directing others.

  • Deep familiarity with security control frameworks — specifically the ability to translate control language into testable, automatable specifications.

  • Experience building data pipelines and APIs that normalize compliance-relevant telemetry from multiple enterprise systems into a unified, queryable source of truth.

  • Engineering-led approach to audit: you've replaced manual evidence collection with automated pipelines and can articulate how those systems satisfy auditor scrutiny.

  • Familiarity with agentic or LLM-based workflows for automating unstructured tasks (inquiry response, evidence summarization, anomaly triage).

Even Better If...

  • Experience with Compliance as Code or Policy as Code frameworks (OPA/Rego, Cedar, or similar); comfort expressing control logic as versioned, testable code.

  • Proficiency with the Salesforce platform and KARL for building compliance automation on native infrastructure.

  • Experience with shift-left compliance — integrating control gates into CI/CD pipelines, PRs, or infrastructure provisioning workflows rather than post-deployment audits.

  • Experience fine-tuning or prompt-engineering LLMs for structured compliance tasks: evidence mapping, natural language control summaries, or audit response generation.

  • Tableau or similar for compliance reporting — built by data engineers, consumed by auditors and executives.

  • Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA), CISSP, or CISM.

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