Senior Security Engineer - Threat Detection

Who we are

Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, which allows businesses that depend on physical operations to harness IoT (Internet of Things) data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations. Founded in San Francisco in 2015, we now employ more than 1,800 people globally and have over 1.5 million active devices. Samsara also went public in December 2021 and we’re just getting started. 

Recent awards we’ve won include: 

• #2 in the Financial Times’ Fastest Growing Companies in Americas list 2021
• Named as a Best Place to Work in Built In 2022 
• #19 in the Forbes Cloud 100 2021  
• IoT Analytics Company of the Year in 2022’s IoT Breakthrough Winners 
• Forbes Advisor named us the Best Solution for Large Companies - Fleet management software for 2022!

We're driving change in industries that are yet to fully embrace digital transformation. Physical operations make up a massive slice of the global economy but haven’t benefited from innovation and actionable information in the way that other sectors have. The potential for scale and impact is huge.

About the role:

The Senior Security Engineer is responsible for building, operating, and maintaining Samsara’s core security infrastructure. Reporting to the Director of Information Security, you will collaborate with a global team of engineers to build a world-class security engineering program utilizing modern principles across corporate and product infrastructure.

You take security seriously and strive to build low-friction solutions developed in close partnership with others. You are passionate about building automated alerting and response capabilities and helping to drive insights around potentially malicious activity within production environments. You will use your familiarity with a diverse set of technologies and practices to build a top program in our industry.

Click here to learn about what we value at Samsara.

In this role, you will: 

• Contribute to the development, deployment, and management of Samsara’s threat detection program, including tool identification, integration, and ongoing operations.
• Build efforts around detection engineering, such as identifying, enriching, and integrating critical datasets into alerting tooling and setting meaningful thresholds and scoring to help detect notable security events.
• Write documentation and runbooks around key alerting response activities.
• Drive automated actions in response to security alerts and build infrastructure to enable operations members to create additional automation.
• Assist with other automated security tooling, such as just-in-time access management, least privilege access, and other security engineering priorities.
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Obsess Over the Customer, Build for the Long Term, Growth Mindset) as we scale globally and across new offices  

Minimum requirements for the role:

• Deep subject matter expertise within security engineering and threat detection, including extensive experience in Python, shell scripting, AWS, and modern SIEM platforms.
• Significant (4+ years) experience working in security engineering in the technology sector.
• Willingness to collaborate and mentor security operations analysts, including via documentation writing, code pairing, and other activities.

An ideal candidate also has:

• Experience building out SIEM and SOAR infrastructure from near scratch.
• Experience driving efforts around least privilege, just-in-time access management, and identity lifecycle management.

At Samsara, we welcome everyone regardless of their background, race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, etc. We depend on the unique approaches of our team members to help us solve complex problems. We are committed to increasing diversity across our team and ensuring that Samsara is a place where people from all backgrounds can make an impact.

Accommodations

Samsara is an inclusive work environment, and we are committed to ensuring equal opportunity in employment for qualified persons with disabilities. Please email [email protected] or click here if you require any reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process.

US Only: Please note that Samsara’s COVID-19 vaccination policy requires all team members who will be meeting in person for business or working from one of our offices to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit regular testing. People who cannot be vaccinated for qualifying medical conditions, sincerely held religious beliefs, and other legally protected categories, may request an accommodation.

Benefits

Our target total compensation market position is in the top 25% of all software and hardware companies. Our full time employees receive an above market-rate salary, an outstanding equity offering, employee-led remote and flexible working, health benefits, personal development, Samsara for Good charity fund, and much, much more. Take a look at our Benefits site to learn more. 

Flexible Working 

At Samsara, we have adopted a flexible way of working, enabling teams and individuals to do their best work, regardless of where they’re based. We value in-person collaboration and know a change of scenery and quiet space to work is welcomed from time to time, but also appreciate that the world of work has changed. Our offices remain open for those who prefer to collaborate or work in-office, but we also encourage fully remote applicants. As most roles are not required to be in the office, we are able to hire remotely where Samsara has an established presence. If a role is required to be in a certain location and candidates do not have work authorization for that location, Samsara will conduct an immigration assessment. If the role is not required to be in a specific location, Samsara will move forward with the remote location that works best for the business. All offers of employment are contingent upon an individual’s ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the company.