Senior Director of Engineering - Offensive Security Penetration Testing

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About the Role

We are looking for a visionary Senior Director to lead our Offensive Security Penetration Testing team, scaling and maturing a focused offensive security organization dedicated to deep application level penetration testing and advanced AI/ML exploitation across our products and platforms.

This role includes both executive leadership and a strong technical knowledge. You will own strategy, prioritization, resourcing, quality, and outcomes, ensuring penetration testing efforts reduce critical/systemic risk and directly influence our product, features and platform security decisions.

Leadership & Management Responsibilities

Strategic Ownership & Vision

• Own the long-term vision and roadmap for penetration testing, aligned with company risk priorities and product strategy.
• Define success metrics such as risk reduction, systemic issue elimination, pre-GA coverage, and remediation quality.
• Balance hands-on technical depth with strategic delegation to enable scale.

Team Leadership & Development

• Build, lead, and retain a high-performing team of senior penetration testers.

• Define role expectations, leveling, and career progression across IC and leadership paths.
• Coach and develop senior technical leaders and foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and impact.

Program & Portfolio Management

• Own prioritization across penetration testing efforts, balancing depth, coverage, and timing based on risk and business needs.
• Ensure consistent execution and high quality outcomes while enabling deep, research-driven work where it delivers the most value.
• Align testing efforts with major product launches, architectural changes, and AI feature rollouts.

Executive Communication & Influence

• Serve as the executive authority on OffSec penetration testing.
• Communicate clearly with senior leadership on high-risk findings, systemic exposure, trends, and investment needs.
• Translate technical risk into business-relevant narratives that drive decisions.

Budget, Hiring & Governance

• Own headcount planning, hiring strategy, budget, and selective use of external vendors.
• Establish standards for engagement scoping, reporting quality, and fix validation.
• Ensure findings result in real remediation by tracking progress and escalating stalled or systemic risks.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in offensive security or vulnerability research, including leadership of senior technical teams or functions.
• Proven track record of building, scaling, and leading high-impact security organizations.
• Strong ability to set strategy, prioritize risk, and drive measurable outcomes across multiple products or platforms.
• Experience operating at the Director or Senior Director level, influencing engineering leadership and executive decision-making.
• Excellent people leadership skills, including hiring, developing senior leaders, and performance management.
• Ability to translate complex security risk into clear, business-relevant guidance for executive stakeholders.
• Deep expertise in Offensive Security, Pen Test/Red Team with a strong attacker mindset.
• Proven personal experience executing high Impact Pentesting engagements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading an Offensive Security team in large-scale or fast-moving environments such as Pentest/RedTeam/Research.
• Track record of influencing secure-by-design decisions at the platform or architecture level.
• Security research publications, talks, or tooling contributions demonstrating technical and organizational impact.

• Research & Disclosure and Track record of discovering and responsibly disclosing security vulnerabilities through CVEs, Publications, Blogs or event Talks/Presentations

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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 $218,400 - $365,200 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $263,200 - $401,400 annually.The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.