Staff Software Engineer, Product Security

Summary

Join Samsara, a leader in the Connected Operations™ Cloud, as a Staff Software Engineer on the Product Security team. You will play a key role in securing our cloud, mobile, and embedded software and infrastructure. This remote position (excluding the San Francisco Bay Area and NYC Metro Area) offers the opportunity to impact global industries by building secure and scalable software solutions. You will lead projects, solve complex security problems, and champion security best practices. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in software development, security architecture, and leadership, with a passion for building secure and reliable systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• Deep subject matter expertise in authentication and authorization in multi-tenant platforms
• 12+ years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions with at least 4 of those years in an architect or leadership role
• Demonstrated ability to ship production-quality software in a dynamic environment
• Expertise working with web services at massive scale deployed on Cloud providers such as AWS or Azure
• Is an expert in writing high quality, performant and maintainable code in a modern programming language
• Know your way around a UNIX shell and a Linux operating system

Responsibilities

• Lead organization-wide projects and develop tools that improve the security and compliance posture of our platform
• Deliver impact by solving the hardest security and compliance problems and enabling products to reach the market quickly and successfully
• Identify and guide prioritization of opportunities for improvement to our security tools and processes
• Increase visibility and knowledge of security best practices to raise the bar across the company
• Act as a multiplier for the team, elevating the impact and output of every team member
• Influence the vision and roadmap for security and compliance to support our rapid growth
• Represent Samsara in external-facing forums: writing on our engineering blog, speaking at conferences, collaborating with vendors
• 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

• Has 15+ years of relevant industry experience in software development
• Has experience working with processes that scale well for a team of 500+ engineers
• Has experience influencing a company’s product and infrastructure security strategy
• Enjoys leading and mentoring engineers to think about systems - their life cycles, edge cases, and failure modes
• Enjoys enabling cross-functional collaboration between product, finance, and engineers with different focuses (frontend, mobile, firmware, computer vision, ML)

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package
• Employee-led remote and flexible working
• Health benefits
• Samsara for Good charity fund