Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher
About the role
About Salesforce
The Experience
What You'll Actually Be Doing
- Lead technical pipeline development of capabilities focused on creation and delivery of intelligence products.
- Maintain and enhance Salesforce TI’s threat prioritization model to continually identify top threats to Salesforce.
- Coordinate and manage creation, organization, development, and delivery of threat intelligence quarterly briefings to senior security and company leadership.
- Serve as one of the primary team interfaces with threat intelligence customers, managing educational presentations and incorporating feedback into threat intelligence capability development.
- Lead the development of routine and ad hoc threat intelligence written products, and own the customer dissemination portfolio for the team.
- Consume and curate threat data to create intelligence assessments in support of our incident response, threat hunting, threat detection, security engineering, and risk prioritization missions.
- Consume and curate OSINT and paid-for vendor reporting to contextualize the threat landscape.
- Write scripts (or capability to learn how to) and tools to help with analysis and build automation to aid investigations and threat research using lessons learned.
- Build expertise on any threats targeting Salesforce and provide attribution to attacker activity when possible
- Identify new and existing threats and clearly distill this information to support finished intelligence to multiple internal partners, including executives.
- Perform intelligence research during incident response, supporting multiple teams and drive direction of investigations based on knowledge of attackers.
You're Our Person If You Have
- At least 5 years of professional experience identifying patterns and trends across various data sources to distill findings concisely for various audiences at scale.
- 3+ years experience with Cyber Threat Intelligence writing for both technical, non-technical, and executive audiences - ideally with threat briefings, threat reports, blog posts, or similar finished intelligence.
- 3+ years experience conducting and correlating threat research using OSINT, paid-for threat vendors, incident response engagement data, and proprietary tools.
- A capable oral and written communicator, you are able to engage others in the business at multiple levels to translate threat research into actionable recommendations to shape the business.
- Experience identifying, tracking of advanced cyber threat actors, including government-backed and advanced e-crime adversaries; knowledge of advanced actor TTPs and how to translate these to various audiences.
- Established threat intelligence practitioner (active engagement in the Information Security or Threat Community with contacts is a big plus).
- Experience using various AI tools for large data set analysis and intelligence support.
- You operate in a semi-autonomous to autonomous manner, driving the delivery of projects and deliverables with minimal oversight across multiple teams.
- You can work actively as a part of a globally distributed team, including remote and in-person colleagues.
Even Better If You Have
- 5 years hands-on experience with strategic intelligence writing and standard conventions (BLUF, Diamond Model, MITRE ATT&CK), with a proven track record of authoring dozens of research articles and public-facing blog posts.
- Capability to learn or experience with security analysis tools (Jupyter notebooks, Splunk, ElasticSearch, etc.).
- Experience with SOAR platforms.
- Experience with various AI tools.
- Experience with threats in AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
- Experience or an understanding of hunting/IR tools used for host and network analysis.
- Experience using Threat Intelligence Platforms; building integrations with these platforms is a plus.
- You have an understanding of existing and emerging threats to an organization spanning multiple industries and threat profiles; any threat hunting experience is a big plus.
- Active member of private, invite-only Information Security trust groups with extensive industry and community contacts.
- You have performed all of the above “at scale“ in a large, complex environment
This candidate must be a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized) who does not hold dual citizenship and agrees to complete a U.S. federal government Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) for a Moderate Public Trust position.
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The typical base salary range for this position is $148,500 - $223,900 annually. 

The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.
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