Security GRC Analyst, Forward Deployed Assurance

Description About the team We are looking for a technically strong Security Governance professional who can bridge the gap between Security & Compliance requirements and Engineering implementation.

This role will serve as the technical voice and face of Assurance. You will partner closely with Engineering organizations, PCLs, Product Security, Legal, and other stakeholders to understand how security and compliance requirements are implemented in real systems. You will identify what is working and what is not, and translate those insights back into practical, scalable governance requirements.

The successful candidate will understand systems and architectures well enough to move beyond validating whether a control exists. They will evaluate how the control is designed, implemented, operated, and scaled across the enterprise.

What you’ll be doing:

• Support Assurance and Engineering Alignment - Support technical liaison activities between Assurance, Engineering, Product Security, PCLs, and Legal, ensuring governance requirements are clearly understood and actionable.
• Evaluate Control Implementation - Work directly with Engineering teams to understand how security and compliance controls are implemented within applications, platforms, infrastructure, cloud environments, and engineering workflows.
• Create the Engineering Feedback Loop - Assess what is working, what is creating unnecessary friction, and where controls or requirements are unclear or difficult to operationalize. Feed those insights back into control design, standards, and governance processes.
• Make Requirements Engineer-Usable - Translate regulatory, compliance, and security expectations into clear, actionable technical requirements that Engineering teams can consistently implement and validate.
• Develop Second-Line Oversight - Execute second-line oversight protocols that independently monitor, audit, and validate that all security controls are operational across engineering teams in Salesforce (e.g., attestations, CRE checks).
• Understand Systems End-to-End - Develop a deep understanding of key platforms, architectures, engineering processes, security capabilities, and control implementations to help Assurance make better risk and compliance decisions.
• Assess Risk in M&A - Assess control and risk exposure during M&As. Design the assessment to price risk, evaluate compatibility, and deliver an executable activation plan tied back to the risk model.
• Partner on Emerging Security Requirements - Collaborate with Product Security, Legal, PCEs, Market Enablement, and other teams to understand emerging requirements and determine how they should translate into future security controls and engineering expectations.
• Track the Direction of Compliance Frameworks - Monitor where regulatory and compliance expectations are heading, including AI governance, the EU AI Act, evolving international requirements, and market-specific regulatory expectations. Proactively identify implications for the organization.
• Support Enablement and Change Management - Contribute to change management efforts, documentation, and training to help engineering teams understand and comply with relevant policies and standards.
• Support Control Incident Response - Participate in control incident reviews and postmortems, assisting with root-cause analysis and tracking remediation efforts for control failures.
• Contribute to Control Refinement - Collaborate with control owners to provide feedback on control effectiveness and suggest updates based on operational findings and engineering feedback.
• Engage Security Champions - Work alongside security and control champions across Engineering to gather feedback, distribute guidance, and support governance adoption.
• Support Leadership Reporting - Help track and report metrics on control coverage, compliance trends, and risk items to support management reporting.
• Represent Assurance Requirements - Serve as a point of contact for Assurance in engineering and operational discussions, helping integrate compliance considerations early in development cycles.

What you should have:

• U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency required. We're unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role.
• 2-3 years of relevant experience or technical background in security engineering, cloud security, product security, IAM, platform engineering, or IT governance.
• Ability to understand complex systems, architectures, APIs, infrastructure, cloud environments, and software development processes.
• Experience translating security, risk, regulatory, or compliance requirements into technical implementation requirements.
• Strong understanding of security controls and frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, SOC, SOX, FedRAMP, or similar frameworks.
• Familiarity with emerging technology and regulatory areas such as AI security, AI governance, privacy, and evolving global technology regulations.
• Ability to work effectively with Engineering while also partnering with Legal, Compliance, Security, Risk, and business stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical implementation details to governance teams and translate governance expectations into language Engineering teams can act on.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to evaluate requirements and provide constructive input based on practical constraints.
• Experience with independent control testing, assurance or audit practices, incident or root-cause analysis, or M&A due diligence is a plus.

What Success Looks Like: Success in this role means creating a strong connection between what Assurance requires and what Engineering can effectively implement. Controls become more technically relevant, and requirements become easier for Engineering teams to consume. Implementation challenges are identified earlier, and emerging security and regulatory expectations are incorporated into the control environment before they become compliance gaps. Control failures are handled with the same rigor as availability incidents, and leadership has clear visibility into control reliability and systemic risk.

Ultimately, this role will help move Assurance from primarily validating compliance to becoming a technical governance partner that actively shapes secure and compliant engineering practices by design.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.