Senior Security Engineer

Summary

Join Samsara as a Senior Security Engineer II and build, operate, and maintain our core security infrastructure. Collaborate with a global team to build a world-class security engineering program using modern principles across corporate infrastructure. Develop low-friction solutions, automated alerting and response capabilities, and drive insights into malicious activity. Build tools and workflows, maintain active programs, and integrate security into company processes. Mentor junior engineers and help them develop their skills and security instincts. This remote role is open to candidates in Canada; relocation assistance is not provided.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant experience with demonstrated impact and influence across a large part of an organization, with 5+ years in an Enterprise Security specific role
• Deep expertise in enterprise security engineering best practices
• 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 large scope, impactful work across multiple quarters and collaborating effectively across teams

Responsibilities

• Own and drive execution of multiple key enterprise security systems, ensuring they are well-integrated, documented, and effectively support Samsara’s security goals
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience driving efforts around 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 Zscaler, Crowdstrike, Wiz, Splunk, and other tools
• Experience with infrastructure as code deployments using Terraform

Benefits

• Health benefits
• Remote and flexible working