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Network Security Specialist roles qualify for EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship through the PERM labor certification process, which requires your employer to demonstrate no qualified U.S. workers are available. Roles demanding specialized skills in threat detection, firewall architecture, or compliance frameworks are well-suited to this pathway, making green card sponsorship a realistic goal for foreign professionals in this field.
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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.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Email Security & Network Defense (ESND) team protects the enterprise by engineering adaptive defense systems across email, network edge, secure browsing, application control, and emerging AI workflows. As a Software Engineering, MTS on this team, you build and maintain the security architecture that keeps Salesforce resilient against evolving threats, using an automation-first philosophy and Agile execution to deploy modern defenses without slowing business momentum. You use Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a core part of your engineering workflow, working alongside AI agents to design, build, and govern secure systems at scale.
What You'll Actually Be Doing:
- Develop security solutions leveraging best development practices and modern AI tools and approaches.
- Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow, pushing the boundaries of AI development tools to deliver secure, optimized, and high-quality code.
- Contribute to Infrastructure-as-Code automation efforts to provision and manage security systems, ensuring version-controlled and repeatable deployments across global environments.
- Develop and maintain Configuration-as-Code for policy governance for security configurations, using Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to validate and deploy changes, guaranteeing that security tooling is auditable and peer-reviewed.
- Support and maintain application control policies, tuning, and ongoing management to ensure effective enforcement across the organization.
- Support and maintain secure internet access solutions, including Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architectures, TLS inspection (TLSi), and secure browser technologies.
- Design and orchestrate systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into security workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale.
- Contribute to building and maintaining shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably, and critically evaluate code (human- or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Security, Information Technology (IT), and the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT), to enhance security controls.
- Develop and maintain documentation for security processes and procedures.
- Identify and implement improvements to security systems and processes.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
You're Our Person If...
- You have 3+ years of experience working in a large-scale, enterprise security environment.
- Experience building software in one or more languages such as Golang, Python, Java, or similar.
- Experience automating infrastructure or operational workflows using scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python) and tools like Terraform/Ansible.
- You are proficient with container-based development and CI/CD workflows.
- You understand Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure and services, including containers, Kubernetes, and microservices architecture.
- You bring a demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering, using AI to move faster, build fluency across the stack, and contribute well beyond your core specialty.
- You have experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, etc.) in development workflows, with advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to write precise, structured prompts that cultivate the system context making AI outputs reliable, secure, and production-ready.
- You have a proven track record of developing and maintaining documentation for security processes and procedures.
- You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Even Better If...
- You have experience automating workflows or in DevSecOps.
- You have experience with application control, secure browser, Socket firewall, Proofpoint, or SASE platforms.
- You have experience securing AI and Large Language Model (LLM) workflows, encompassing the protection of agentic pipelines, model-serving endpoints, and technical supply chains through application control.
- You hold a CISSP, CCSP, CISM, Security+, or similar security or network certification.
COMPENSATION
- The typical base salary range for this position is $117,200 - $176,700 annually.
The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.
Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.
ACCOMMODATIONS
If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form.
Please note that Salesforce uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help our recruiters assess and evaluate candidates’ resumes and qualifications throughout the recruiting process. Humans will always make any candidate selection and hiring decisions. Please see our Candidate Privacy Statement for more information about how we use your personal data and your rights, including with regard to use of AI tools and opt out options.
POSTING STATEMENT
Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.
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.
At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.
INTRODUCTION
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.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Email Security & Network Defense (ESND) team protects the enterprise by engineering adaptive defense systems across email, network edge, secure browsing, application control, and emerging AI workflows. As a Software Engineering, MTS on this team, you build and maintain the security architecture that keeps Salesforce resilient against evolving threats, using an automation-first philosophy and Agile execution to deploy modern defenses without slowing business momentum. You use Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a core part of your engineering workflow, working alongside AI agents to design, build, and govern secure systems at scale.
What You'll Actually Be Doing:
- Develop security solutions leveraging best development practices and modern AI tools and approaches.
- Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow, pushing the boundaries of AI development tools to deliver secure, optimized, and high-quality code.
- Contribute to Infrastructure-as-Code automation efforts to provision and manage security systems, ensuring version-controlled and repeatable deployments across global environments.
- Develop and maintain Configuration-as-Code for policy governance for security configurations, using Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to validate and deploy changes, guaranteeing that security tooling is auditable and peer-reviewed.
- Support and maintain application control policies, tuning, and ongoing management to ensure effective enforcement across the organization.
- Support and maintain secure internet access solutions, including Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architectures, TLS inspection (TLSi), and secure browser technologies.
- Design and orchestrate systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into security workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale.
- Contribute to building and maintaining shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably, and critically evaluate code (human- or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Security, Information Technology (IT), and the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT), to enhance security controls.
- Develop and maintain documentation for security processes and procedures.
- Identify and implement improvements to security systems and processes.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
You're Our Person If...
- You have 3+ years of experience working in a large-scale, enterprise security environment.
- Experience building software in one or more languages such as Golang, Python, Java, or similar.
- Experience automating infrastructure or operational workflows using scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python) and tools like Terraform/Ansible.
- You are proficient with container-based development and CI/CD workflows.
- You understand Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure and services, including containers, Kubernetes, and microservices architecture.
- You bring a demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering, using AI to move faster, build fluency across the stack, and contribute well beyond your core specialty.
- You have experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, etc.) in development workflows, with advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to write precise, structured prompts that cultivate the system context making AI outputs reliable, secure, and production-ready.
- You have a proven track record of developing and maintaining documentation for security processes and procedures.
- You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Even Better If...
- You have experience automating workflows or in DevSecOps.
- You have experience with application control, secure browser, Socket firewall, Proofpoint, or SASE platforms.
- You have experience securing AI and Large Language Model (LLM) workflows, encompassing the protection of agentic pipelines, model-serving endpoints, and technical supply chains through application control.
- You hold a CISSP, CCSP, CISM, Security+, or similar security or network certification.
COMPENSATION
- The typical base salary range for this position is $117,200 - $176,700 annually.
The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.
Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.
ACCOMMODATIONS
If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form.
Please note that Salesforce uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help our recruiters assess and evaluate candidates’ resumes and qualifications throughout the recruiting process. Humans will always make any candidate selection and hiring decisions. Please see our Candidate Privacy Statement for more information about how we use your personal data and your rights, including with regard to use of AI tools and opt out options.
POSTING STATEMENT
Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.
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.
At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Network Security Specialist
Translate your certifications into PERM language
PERM job requirements must match your actual credentials exactly. Before applying, map your CISSP, CISM, or CEH certifications to the specific duties listed in job postings so your employer can write a compliant PERM description around your qualifications.
Target employers with dedicated immigration infrastructure
Defense contractors, financial institutions, and healthcare networks regularly sponsor Network Security Specialists because of compliance mandates like CMMC and HIPAA. These employers already have legal teams handling PERM filings and are less likely to stall mid-process.
Search for green card sponsoring roles on Migrate Mate
Filter by employers with active EB-2 and EB-3 filing history for security roles. Migrate Mate surfaces companies that have sponsored foreign professionals in network security, cutting out the guesswork of cold-applying to employers unfamiliar with PERM.
Verify the prevailing wage before negotiating your offer
Your employer must pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for your role and location before PERM can proceed. Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the Level I through Level IV wage for Network Security Specialist roles in your target city so you can negotiate from an informed position.
Ask about PERM timing before accepting an offer
PERM labor certification and I-140 approval can take two or more years before you reach adjustment of status. Ask the employer whether they'll file concurrently with an H-1B visa extension or whether you'll need a separate status bridge to stay authorized throughout the process.
Use O*NET to align your job description with EB-2 requirements
The O*NET profile for Network Security Specialists lists the specialized knowledge and skill requirements USCIS expects to see in an EB-2 petition. Verify your job duties and degree requirements match before your employer drafts the PERM application to reduce the risk of a Request for Evidence.
Green Card Network Security Specialist: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Network Security Specialist role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Most Network Security Specialist positions qualify for EB-2 because they typically require at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a related field, plus specialized skills that meet the specialty occupation standard. Roles with less formal degree requirements may fall under EB-3 as skilled workers. Your employer's attorney will determine the appropriate category based on the actual job duties and minimum requirements in the PERM application.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for this role?
Green card sponsorship through PERM leads to permanent residency, not a temporary work authorization. Unlike the H-1B, the EB-2 and EB-3 categories have no annual lottery, so your petition won't be rejected by random selection. The tradeoff is time: PERM, I-140, and adjustment of status together typically take two to five years for most nationalities, compared to an H-1B approval that can come within months. For professionals from India or China, the EB-3 priority date backlog extends the timeline significantly.
What makes finding a sponsoring employer harder for security roles specifically?
Many Network Security Specialist positions require U.S. security clearances, which foreign nationals cannot hold, limiting the pool of sponsoring employers to those with unclassified or commercial security roles. Additionally, the PERM process requires employers to conduct a good-faith U.S. labor market test first, and roles with highly competitive candidate pools may be harder to certify. Targeting employers in regulated industries like finance, healthcare, or cloud infrastructure, where the demand consistently outpaces domestic supply, improves your chances.
How can I find employers actively sponsoring green cards for network security jobs?
Use Migrate Mate to search for Network Security Specialist roles filtered by employers with documented EB-2 and EB-3 sponsorship history. This approach is more efficient than applying broadly, because you're targeting companies that have already completed the PERM process for similar roles and are familiar with the legal and administrative requirements involved.
What documentation should I prepare before a PERM-sponsored job application?
Gather certified transcripts, your degree credentials with any foreign equivalency evaluation if your degree is from outside the U.S., and documentation of professional certifications like CISSP, Security+, or CISM. You'll also need employment verification letters for any experience your employer plans to list as a minimum requirement in the PERM job description. USCIS and DOL both scrutinize whether your actual background matches the stated job requirements, so inconsistencies between your resume and the PERM filing can trigger a denial or audit.