Summer 2025 Intern - Enterprise Security Engineer

Posted:
8/21/2024, 5:00:00 PM

Location(s):
San Francisco, California, United States ⋅ California, United States

Experience Level(s):
Internship

Field(s):
IT & Security

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Job Category

Fixed Term & Temporary

Job Details

About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

Trust is the #1 value at Salesforce. Our Enterprise Security Advisory team secures our enterprise environment that serves our rapidly expanding workforce. We are a team of innovative security professionals who specialize in secure designs, threat modeling, penetration testing, and tool development.

In this role, you will partner closely with technology and business partners to understand their objectives, identify threats within applications and infrastructure, advise on secure best practices, and scale our enterprise security programs. You will collaborate with our Business and IT organizations and champion security requirements in the selection, development, and integration of a wide range of technologies. You will also have the opportunity to identify emerging threats and design new tools and processes that balance security and business agility across Salesforce.

Responsibilities: 

  • Perform black-box penetration testing and code reviews of our flagship services, product offerings and partners apps. 

  • Implement the technology organization's security and privacy initiatives by participating in design reviews and threat modeling. 

  • Participate in our incident response and vulnerability remediation efforts.

  • Perform ground breaking applied research on new attacks and present new findings to both internal and external audiences. 

  • Evaluate application security tools for internal consumption. Develop new automation and tooling to improve our detection and prevention capabilities. 

  • Develop secure code practices and provide hands-on training to developers and quality engineers. 

Minimum Qualifications: 

  • Enrolled and working towards obtaining a BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field. Please note that in order to be eligible for an internship, we require that you be returning to school the following quarter/semester to work towards completing your degree

  • Must be attending a College or University in North America

  • Basic knowledge of security concepts based on relevant courses, self-learning or past internships

  • Familiarity with identifying and protecting against web application and web service security vulnerabilities including those found in the OWASP Top 10 and CWE Top 25

  • Relevant development experience in these languages: Java, JavaScript, Python

  • Familiarity with application and network security

  • Attacker mentality: Passion for breaking all the things unbreakable

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Knowledge of force.com platform (Apex, VisualForce, Aura…) and the Salesforce application

  • Contributions to the security community such as research, public CVEs, bug-bounty recognitions, open-source projects, and blogs or publications

  • Familiarity with security tools such as static analysis, runtime analysis, black-box testing

  • Prior work experience in an application security role

 

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For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $50 to $65.

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Headquarter Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1999

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