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Security Software Engineer roles are among the most consistently sponsored positions in tech, making them a strong fit for F-1 OPT students. Employers filing H-1B visa and O-1 visa petitions for this role typically require a degree in computer science, cybersecurity, or a related field. STEM OPT extension eligibility gives you up to three years of work authorization to build your candidacy.
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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.
- End-to-end software development across complex security data pipelines from ingestion to canonical data stores and downstream consumers.
- Own system architecture for endpoint protection platforms, including authoring System Design Records (SDRs) and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
- Drive platform reliability through availability monitoring strategies, alerting frameworks, and infrastructure hardening.
- Design and build APIs and services including REST API optimization, policy evaluation engines, integration adapter registries, and projection/aggregation services.
- Set engineering standards across the team for code quality, design consistency, and documentation practices.
- Mentor and guide other engineers on team through PR reviews, sprint planning, and technical deep dives.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with security architects, platform teams, and partner engineering orgs to ensure clean system integration and dependency alignment.
- Support on-call operations on a rotating schedule, including flexibility for major incidents across time zones.
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery, enforce engineering rigor, and support multi-language development.
What We're Looking For
Required:
- 2+ years of core software development experience with mastery in multiple programming languages and platforms.
- Strong foundation in database engineering, API development, and data pipeline construction, including experience with event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.
- Demonstrated ability to craft and deliver large, sophisticated projects across the full software lifecycle, including experience with products released for public consumption across multiple releases.
- Proven experience with infrastructure hardening and operational reliability (alerting, availability monitoring, MTTR reduction).
- Ability to design systems at scale including experience with architecture reviews, design documentation, and cross-team alignment; experience working with engineering teams, architects, and executive leadership to craft architectural vision and roadmap.
- Develops technical performance architecture that solves the most complex performance and scalability challenges, with the ability to drive long-term design strategies spanning multiple complex projects.
- Strong engineering process discipline: PR reviews, design reviews, sprint execution, and documentation; experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and short release cycles.
- Ability to provide mentorship to team members, supporting their understanding of architecture and aiding in their technical growth.
- Skilled at fostering cross-functional technical collaboration to surface, escalate, and resolve critical issues effectively.
- Ability to deliver technical reports and performance presentations to customers and at industry events.
- A related technical degree required.
Preferred:
- Familiarity with Endpoint Detect and Response (EDR) or Vulnerability scanning is a plus.
- Familiarity with security tooling ecosystems.
- Experience working on or with security data pipelines.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure company and customer data remains secure, utilizing knowledge of a wide variety of security disciplines, including network, application and infrastructure security.
- Audit Salesforce cloud infrastructure against industry and company security standards, develop uplift plan, and execute on plan to align cloud infrastructure with those standards.
- Collaborate with various internal teams, including infrastructure, engineering, operations, and product development to design and architect infrastructure (i.e. network, operating system, databases) and applications to protect against attackers.
- Serve as a hands-on technical specialist, responsible for handling the complex and detailed technical work necessary to establish and maintain enhanced cloud security.
- Architect, configure, manage, and deploy technologies to improve Salesforce’s ability to prevent intrusions. Track down targeted vulnerabilities and defend against active adversaries. Research, gather threat intelligence and build, optimize, and automate systems to consume threat feeds and track adversaries.
- Create innovative solutions to complex security problems, including the design and use of software to identify security issues, deploy security solutions, and perform reporting activities.
- Mentor and guide engineering teams to achieve team deliverables.
- Communicate clearly to both Engineering and Executive audiences.
Desired Qualifications:
- You have 2+ years experience in a computer network-related occupation.
- You have 2+ years experience in each of the following skills:
- Unix/Linux system administration, including working with Windows environments and hardening guidelines;
- Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure and other public and private cloud infrastructure (EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, EMR, IAM); and
- Building and operating secure infrastructures.
- You have some experience in each of the following skills:
- Security disciplines including security engineering, vulnerability analysis, firewalls, and encryption technologies.
- Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networking, such as Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) stack, TCP, and Software-Defined Networking (SDN).
- Writing code in programming languages such as Python and Ruby to automate software/systems.
- Utilizing knowledge of core protocols and cryptographic standards to guide secure implementations.
- Security technologies, including host and network-based protection and detection technologies.
- Network, host and application security practices.
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. 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.
At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.
The typical base salary range for this position is $117,200 - $176,700 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $141,200 - $194,200 annually.
The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.
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.
- End-to-end software development across complex security data pipelines from ingestion to canonical data stores and downstream consumers.
- Own system architecture for endpoint protection platforms, including authoring System Design Records (SDRs) and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
- Drive platform reliability through availability monitoring strategies, alerting frameworks, and infrastructure hardening.
- Design and build APIs and services including REST API optimization, policy evaluation engines, integration adapter registries, and projection/aggregation services.
- Set engineering standards across the team for code quality, design consistency, and documentation practices.
- Mentor and guide other engineers on team through PR reviews, sprint planning, and technical deep dives.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with security architects, platform teams, and partner engineering orgs to ensure clean system integration and dependency alignment.
- Support on-call operations on a rotating schedule, including flexibility for major incidents across time zones.
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery, enforce engineering rigor, and support multi-language development.
What We're Looking For
Required:
- 2+ years of core software development experience with mastery in multiple programming languages and platforms.
- Strong foundation in database engineering, API development, and data pipeline construction, including experience with event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.
- Demonstrated ability to craft and deliver large, sophisticated projects across the full software lifecycle, including experience with products released for public consumption across multiple releases.
- Proven experience with infrastructure hardening and operational reliability (alerting, availability monitoring, MTTR reduction).
- Ability to design systems at scale including experience with architecture reviews, design documentation, and cross-team alignment; experience working with engineering teams, architects, and executive leadership to craft architectural vision and roadmap.
- Develops technical performance architecture that solves the most complex performance and scalability challenges, with the ability to drive long-term design strategies spanning multiple complex projects.
- Strong engineering process discipline: PR reviews, design reviews, sprint execution, and documentation; experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and short release cycles.
- Ability to provide mentorship to team members, supporting their understanding of architecture and aiding in their technical growth.
- Skilled at fostering cross-functional technical collaboration to surface, escalate, and resolve critical issues effectively.
- Ability to deliver technical reports and performance presentations to customers and at industry events.
- A related technical degree required.
Preferred:
- Familiarity with Endpoint Detect and Response (EDR) or Vulnerability scanning is a plus.
- Familiarity with security tooling ecosystems.
- Experience working on or with security data pipelines.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure company and customer data remains secure, utilizing knowledge of a wide variety of security disciplines, including network, application and infrastructure security.
- Audit Salesforce cloud infrastructure against industry and company security standards, develop uplift plan, and execute on plan to align cloud infrastructure with those standards.
- Collaborate with various internal teams, including infrastructure, engineering, operations, and product development to design and architect infrastructure (i.e. network, operating system, databases) and applications to protect against attackers.
- Serve as a hands-on technical specialist, responsible for handling the complex and detailed technical work necessary to establish and maintain enhanced cloud security.
- Architect, configure, manage, and deploy technologies to improve Salesforce’s ability to prevent intrusions. Track down targeted vulnerabilities and defend against active adversaries. Research, gather threat intelligence and build, optimize, and automate systems to consume threat feeds and track adversaries.
- Create innovative solutions to complex security problems, including the design and use of software to identify security issues, deploy security solutions, and perform reporting activities.
- Mentor and guide engineering teams to achieve team deliverables.
- Communicate clearly to both Engineering and Executive audiences.
Desired Qualifications:
- You have 2+ years experience in a computer network-related occupation.
- You have 2+ years experience in each of the following skills:
- Unix/Linux system administration, including working with Windows environments and hardening guidelines;
- Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure and other public and private cloud infrastructure (EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, EMR, IAM); and
- Building and operating secure infrastructures.
- You have some experience in each of the following skills:
- Security disciplines including security engineering, vulnerability analysis, firewalls, and encryption technologies.
- Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networking, such as Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) stack, TCP, and Software-Defined Networking (SDN).
- Writing code in programming languages such as Python and Ruby to automate software/systems.
- Utilizing knowledge of core protocols and cryptographic standards to guide secure implementations.
- Security technologies, including host and network-based protection and detection technologies.
- Network, host and application security practices.
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. 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.
At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.
The typical base salary range for this position is $117,200 - $176,700 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $141,200 - $194,200 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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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as a Security Software Engineer
Target employers with active security clearance programs
Defense contractors and federal agencies like Booz Allen Hamilton and Leidos sponsor security engineers at high rates. These employers run structured hiring pipelines and are accustomed to immigration paperwork, making OPT transitions smoother than at smaller firms.
Align your degree field with the job description
Specialty occupation approval for H-1B visa depends on your degree matching the role. A computer science or cybersecurity degree is the clearest fit. If your degree is in a related field, emphasize coursework in networking, cryptography, or systems security in your application materials.
Get relevant certifications before you apply
Certifications like CompTIA Security+, CISSP, or CEH signal job readiness to hiring managers evaluating OPT candidates. Employers sponsoring H-1B petitions for security roles often cite certifications alongside degree requirements in their LCA filings with the Department of Labor.
Apply to companies mid-H-1B cycle, not just in January
Many OPT students wait until H-1B lottery season to apply, but employers hire security engineers year-round. Starting your job search six to nine months before OPT expiration gives you negotiating time and avoids the last-minute pressure that raises red flags for sponsors.
Highlight security clearance eligibility if you have it
Some OPT holders are eligible for Secret or Top Secret clearances depending on citizenship and background. If you qualify, make this explicit in your resume and applications. Clearance-eligible candidates are significantly harder to replace, which strengthens an employer's case for sponsorship.
Ask about sponsorship policy before the final interview round
Raise OPT and future H-1B sponsorship with the recruiter after an initial positive response, not at the offer stage. Framing it as a timeline question rather than a request signals professionalism and avoids wasting weeks in a process the employer was never going to complete.
Security Software Engineer OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Security Software Engineer roles commonly qualify for STEM OPT extension?
Yes. Security Software Engineer is classified under CIP code 11.0701 (Computer Science) or 14.0901 (Computer Engineering) when the underlying degree is in those fields, both of which qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension. Your degree must appear on the STEM Designated Degree Program List, and your employer must be E-Verify enrolled to authorize the extension.
How do I find Security Software Engineer jobs that are open to OPT candidates?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically for visa sponsorship and OPT eligibility, so you're not guessing which employers will work with F-1 students. Searching there surfaces Security Software Engineer roles from companies that have actively sponsored similar positions, saving you the time of screening out employers who won't consider OPT candidates.
Can I work as a Security Software Engineer as an independent contractor on OPT?
Yes, but self-employment on OPT has strict requirements. You must be actively engaged in a bona fide business related to your degree field, and you cannot work for a single client in a way that resembles regular employment. You also bear full responsibility for tracking your own work authorization dates. Consulting your DSO before pursuing contractor arrangements is strongly recommended.
What happens to my OPT if my Security Software Engineer employer is acquired or goes through a layoff?
If you're laid off, your 60-day unemployment grace period begins immediately. You can use that time to find a new role, but you cannot work during it. If your employer is acquired and your job continues under the new entity, your OPT authorization generally remains valid as long as your role and degree alignment are unchanged. Notify your DSO in either situation.
Does working in a security software role on OPT affect a future H-1B petition?
It strengthens it. Documented OPT employment in security engineering builds the evidentiary record that USCIS evaluates when assessing specialty occupation status for H-1B. Your employer's LCA filing will reference your job duties, degree requirement, and prevailing wage level. Consistent employment in a well-defined security engineering role with clear degree alignment makes adjudication more straightforward.