Sr. Security Engineer I - Enterprise Security at Samsara — Remote North America

Sr. Security Engineer I - Enterprise Security at Samsara — Remote North America | RemoteJobs

About the role:

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.

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 enjoy building tools and workflows from scratch, maintaining active programs, and threading security into company processes to meet business needs. You will use your familiarity with a diverse set of technologies and practices to build a leading program in our industry. You enjoy teaching and supporting team members, and helping junior engineers develop their skills and security instincts.

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in California, Hawaii, Oregon, Nevada, and Washington except for San Francisco Bay Area Metro. Relocation assistance will not be provided for this role.

You should apply if:

You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact – helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.

You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work, this role won’t be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development, countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.

You’re energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative, ambitious ideas for our customers.

You want to be with the best: At Samsara, we win together, celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a high-calibre team that will encourage you to do your best.

In this role, you will:

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

Minimum requirements for the role:

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.

An ideal candidate also has:

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

The range of annual base salary for full-time employees for this position is below. Please note that base pay offered may vary depending on factors including your city of residence, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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. Learn more about our total rewards and benefits below.