Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, enabling organizations to harness IoT data for actionable insights. The Senior Security Engineer I - Enterprise Security will build and maintain Samsara’s core security infrastructure while collaborating with a global team to enhance security programs and tools.
Responsibilities
- Provide influence and leadership over Samsara’s Enterprise Security roadmap and priorities, helping to balance both near-term and long-term business impact with technical considerations
- Write clear, concise documentation and runbooks for enterprise security workflows
- Collaborate with partners across Engineering, IT, and Security to ensure proper implementation of security tools and policies
- Occasionally assist the Security Operations team during security investigations, acting as a technical subject matter expert within your domain
- Partner with engineering teams to triage and support remediation of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in systems and applications
- Mentor engineers in the Security team to grow their domain knowledge, tool-specific skills, and communication abilities
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices
Skills
- 4+ years of relevant experience in an Enterprise Security role with demonstrated impact
- Deep expertise in enterprise security engineering best practices, with a focus on SASE tools like Zscaler
- Strong scripting skills with Python, including experience building tools and automations
- Demonstrated experience building, integrating, and maintaining enterprise security tools
- Strong familiarity with common security problems and the ability to independently judge their severity and impact on the business
- Hands-on experience with automation tools (e.g., Tines, AWS Lambda) and common security platforms (e.g., Crowdstrike, Zscaler, Wiz)
- Track record of delivering impactful work across multiple quarters and collaborating effectively across teams
- Resides in the Pacific or Hawaii time zones
- Experience driving efforts around zero trust, least privilege, just-in-time access management, identity lifecycle management, and data loss prevention
- A history of building out security programs using modern SaaS platforms such as Crowdstrike, Mimecast Incydr, Splunk, and other tools
- Experience with infrastructure as code deployments using Terraform
Benefits
- This role is also eligible for an initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff, and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance, subject to plan terms and conditions.
- Performance-based bonus/variable pay
- Equity (for eligible roles) in a high-growth public company
- A flexible, employee-led remote model
- A professional development stipend
- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
- Flexible Working
- Our offices are open for those who prefer to work in-person and we also support remote work where it aligns with our operational requirements
- All offers of employment are contingent upon an individual’s ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the company and in the specified work location, if applicable
- Samsara is an inclusive work environment, and we are committed to ensuring equal opportunity in employment for qualified persons with disabilities
- Please email accessibleinterviewing@samsara.com or click here if you require any reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process
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