Principal Threat Researcher, Software Engineer

Our Threat Intelligence team focuses on defending our organization and our customers by cutting through the noise and identifying who’s targeting us and what emerging threats we need to prepare for. Our team includes those who have faced nation state, eCrime, and other types of adversaries in threat intelligence, incident response, and/or threat detection functions in past lives. We use our wide expertise to drive direction, support investigations, and uplift security as a whole across Salesforce. Role Description: As a Principal Threat Researcher (Counter-Threat Ops), you don't just track threats—you neutralize them. You are a key pillar of the Threat Intelligence (TI) team, specifically focused on the art of adversary disruption. You will lead the charge in identifying, tracking, and imposing friction on threat actors targeting the Salesforce ecosystem. This is a "hands-on-keyboard" technical leadership role as an individual contributor. You will perform deep-dive research across massive datasets to extract tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs), build complex attacker profiles, and turn that intelligence into action. Whether you are partnering with hyperscalers to take down attacker infrastructure or working alongside multi-national law enforcement to support criminal prosecution, your goal is to make it expensive and dangerous for adversaries to operate against Salesforce and our Customers. Responsibilities Adversary Disruption & Denial: Lead initiatives to disrupt threat actor operations by leveraging Salesforce infrastructure and strategic partnerships with hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, MAS), CDNs, and network security providers. Law Enforcement Collaboration: Develop high-fidelity technical evidence and attribution data to support US and European law enforcement in the successful criminal prosecution of threat actors. Strategic Intelligence Ecosystem: Deepen Salesforce’s reach into the broader cyber intelligence community, fostering peer-to-peer partnershi...