[Hiring] Security Operations Engineer I @Samsara

Role Description

As a Security Operations Engineer at Samsara, you will join a global team dedicated to protecting our people, systems, and information. You will triage and investigate security alerts, run incident response efforts, and help improve the tools, runbooks, and automated workflows we use to detect and respond to threats.

This role is an ideal next step if you have built foundational experience in a SOC or hands-on security environment and want to develop your technical craft. At Samsara, we view this level as a collaborative apprenticeship:

• Develop independent execution skills on discrete investigations.
• Break down incoming alerts into actionable steps.
• Partner with incident stakeholders to remediate findings.
• Work alongside experienced responders during complex security incidents.
• Explore modern AI tools and insights to simplify routine tasks and optimize your day-to-day workflow.

We are looking for someone who follows the evidence, communicates with intellectual honesty, asks thoughtful questions, and brings a collaborative, pragmatic approach to security operations.

This is a remote position open to candidates based in the United States and in the Pacific Timezone.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience triaging and investigating security alerts in a security operations, incident response or similar role.
• Experience using security tools such as a SIEM, endpoint detection and response platform, or email security platform to investigate suspicious activity.
• An understanding of common threats, such as phishing, account compromise and suspicious endpoint activity, and the networking, operating system and identity concepts needed to investigate them.
• Ability to query and interpret logs, distinguish evidence from assumptions, and recognize when further investigation or escalation is needed.
• Some scripting experience: you can read, adapt and write small scripts in Python or another language to support an investigation or simplify repetitive work.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including documenting findings, explaining uncertainty and providing effective handovers.
• A careful approach to sensitive information, willingness to ask for help, and openness to feedback.

Requirements

• Experience investigating activity in cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP, SaaS applications, or identity systems.
• Exposure to writing or tuning detections, threat hunting, or investigating activity across multiple data sources.
• Experience using Python, APIs or automation platforms to improve a security workflow.
• Familiarity with evidence collection or forensic analysis on macOS, Windows or Linux.

Benefits

• Flexible working model that caters to the diverse needs of our teams.
• Professional development stipend.
• Comprehensive health and parental leave plans.
• Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff, and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance.