[Hiring] Senior Security Engineer I - Enterprise Security @Samsara

Role Description

The Senior Security Engineer I - Enterprise Security is responsible for building, operating, and maintaining Samsara’s core security infrastructure. You will collaborate with a global team of engineers to help build a world-class security engineering program utilizing modern principles across corporate infrastructure.

• 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 as we scale globally and across new offices.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• 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

• Above-market total compensation through a combination of base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity (for eligible roles).
• Flexible, employee-led remote model.
• Professional development stipend.
• Comprehensive health and parental leave plans.