Information Security Architect - CSIRT

Salesforce is hiring an Information Security Architect - CSIRT in India - Hyderabad.

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Responsibilities

• Lead the analysis on investigations independently — take multi-source datasets (Splunk, CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM (NG-SIEM), SQL) and reconstruct what the threat actor did, what they accessed, and what was at risk, across varying Salesforce products.
• Adapt the investigative approach when standard playbook procedures don't map cleanly to the incident — document the deviation and the rationale rather than working around it silently.
• Perform log analysis independently: multi-source joins, regex parsing, and hypothesis-driven pivoting across data sources — needing no assistance beyond peer review.
• Scope advanced exfiltration patterns (Aura, GraphQL, Bulk API) on well-documented TTP types without requiring senior guidance.
• Produce accurate, complete case documentation and investigation timelines; review your own case work end-to-end before submission, catching gaps proactively rather than relying on peer review — and contribute to customer-facing reports.
• Lead investigations into ATO, credential compromise, data exfiltration, and API abuse incidents; escalate genuinely novel or multi-cloud/complex cases to a Technical Lead.
• Execute containment actions independently (credential rotation, IP blocks, OAuth revocation); escalate strategic or platform-level actions (deployment moratoriums, platform cuts) for approval and appropriate stakeholder coordination.
• Interact directly with customers through our case management system and lead standard, non-hostile customer calls — explaining log data and delivering complex technical findings clearly to non-technical audiences without requiring a senior team member on the call.
• Prepare comms requests with enough technical detail that the comms team can act on them without follow-up clarification.
• Proactively identify detection opportunities and gaps surfaced during analysis — partnering with Detection Engineering to tune existing coverage and raise net-new detection logic.
• Identify procedural gaps or friction during investigations — actively documenting updates to fix broken processes and automating repetitive workflows.
• Complete AppExchange audits and ISV investigations without senior supervision on standard cases.
• Share knowledge with the team on a regular cadence — case walkthroughs, team presentations, or documentation contributions.
• Support our AI-first initiatives — use and help improve automated agents for triage, documentation, and investigation workflows.
• Build working relationships across ITM/SSRC — Detection, Product Security, Legal — and leverage them to accelerate incident resolution.

Requirements

• 5+ years in security incident response with consistent hands-on technical case work; currently performing active investigations, not purely coordinating.
• Strong, independent analytical skill under pressure. Demonstrated ability to take multi-source data and produce a correct, defensible account of incidents without hand-holding.
• Proficient log analysis — Splunk, CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM (NG-SIEM), and SQL, including multi-source joins and regex parsing — performed independently, with no more than peer review.
• Hands-on threat hunting — able to run hypothesis-driven hunts across large security datasets (NG-SIEM, Splunk) to surface malicious activity that isn't yet alerting, and pivot what you find into an active investigation.
• Solid hands-on experience with Account Takeover, credential compromise, data exfiltration, and API abuse incidents.
• Proactive "raise the bar" mindset — a track record of fixing inefficient processes, automating manual toil, and looking for ways to leave workflows better than you found them.
• Strong technical knowledge across systems, networks, cloud security, and forensic techniques.
• Demonstrated composure and judgment across multiple concurrent investigations.
• Strong familiarity with Salesforce products/ecosystems, or comparable multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
• Ability to lead standard customer calls and communicate complex technical findings to non-technical audiences clearly.
• Working familiarity with regional and global compliance standards (GDPR, PCI-DSS, DORA).
• Ability to drive an investigation to a clear, defensible outcome and coordinate across functions.
• Desired Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field.
• Software development and/or detection engineering background — comfortable writing code/scripts to extend tooling, automate repetitive investigative tasks, build agentic workflows, or translate findings into detection logic. Day-to-day this role tunes rather than owns detections (see leveling note), so this is a force-multiplier, not a core requirement.
• Prior experience operating within a large, global enterprise organization or high-scale SOC/IR environment.

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