Senior Director, Security Engineering - Slack at Salesforce in San Francisco, CA

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To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job Category Software Engineering Job Details About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. We are seeking a transformative security leader who can evolve Slack's security posture from protecting a messaging platform to securing an AI work OS where autonomous agents are first-class actors. As Senior Director of Security Engineering, you will lead a globally distributed security organization and own the full spectrum — from platform defense and incident response through product security, identity, and the emerging discipline of AI/agent security. You'll partner across Slack and Salesforce to ensure Slack remains the most trusted platform for both human users and the autonomous AI agents they deploy. This is not a maintenance role. We need someone who sees around corners, builds teams that move faster than adversaries, and has the conviction to drive a security program that's as forward-looking as the product it protects. What You'll Build (Transform) Architect security for the agentic era — Define and execute the end-to-end security vision and roadmap for Slack. You will continuously evolve our security posture to stay ahead of sophisticated, AI-driven threat actors by establishing a complete security model for AI agents operating on Slack with clear benchmarks, driving accountability, and aligning platform defense with broader enterprise business goals. Evolve Slack’s identity and access management to consider emerging zero trust agentic use cases Build AI-powered defense capabilities — Evolve our AI and ML-driven detection, threat hunting, and automated response systems that stay ahead of the AI-augmented adversaries doubling down on proactive, autonomous threat detection that leverages LLMs to correlate signals across Slack's infrastructure at machine speed Transform the SDLC security model — Evolve from gate-based security reviews to security-as-code that makes the safe path the easy path for every engineer — including AI coding agents What You'll Run (Operate) Own and execute the end-to-end Slack Security program across Platform Defense, Product Security, Infrastructure Protection, IAM, Vulnerability Management, and Security Incident Response Lead and scale a globally distributed security engineering organization, hiring, developing and retaining top talent including senior security leaders and senior level ICs Serve as Incident Commander for critical security incidents, providing strategic counsel to executive leadership and ensuring efficient recovery with thorough post-incident learning Collaborate closely with executive peers across Product, Engineering, Legal, and cross-functional security groups to champion Slack Security, ensuring Slack remains the most trusted and secure platform for users and autonomous AI agents alike. Proactively benchmark Slack's security posture against industry peers and establish Slack Security as a world-class program that the industry looks to as a reference Cultivate a security culture across the broader engineering org — making every engineer a security partner through training, tooling, and incentive alignment Minimum Qualifications 15+ years of broad cybersecurity experience spanning multiple security domains (infrastructure security, application security, incident re