Samsara

Senior Security Engineer - Threat Detection

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8 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$203k - $239k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and continuously improve MITRE ATT&CK-aligned detections across cloud, endpoint, identity, email, and application telemetry.
  • Own the detection lifecycle from hypothesis, data validation, and baselining through deployment, tuning, validation, and retirement.
  • Advance the detection-as-code platform through version control, peer review, automated testing, CI/CD, reliability improvements, and observability.
  • Build integrations for data ingestion, enrichment, threat intelligence, retrospective scanning, and coverage across internal and third-party systems.
  • Evaluate AI-powered security capabilities, including MCP integrations, threat hunting, anomaly detection, and response automation.
  • Partner with Security Operations on investigations, incidents, tabletop exercises, detection maintenance, and code pairing.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in security engineering, detection engineering, or a related technology discipline.
  • Strong Python and SQL skills, including analysis of large datasets to build and validate detections.
  • Hands-on experience with detection-as-code, Git-based workflows, automated testing, and CI/CD deployment.
  • Deep experience with modern SIEM platforms, including data onboarding, advanced queries, dashboards, and threat intelligence enrichment.
  • Working knowledge of AWS, Linux, containers, and EDR.
  • Ability to build systems from scratch, lead projects independently, learn technologies quickly, and communicate technical concepts through documentation, RFCs, and presentations.
  • Preferred qualifications include experience with Airflow or Databricks, LLMs, agentic frameworks, MCP integrations, behavioral analytics, anomaly detection, feature engineering, model evaluation, risk-based alerting, ChatOps, distributed alerting, attack simulation, Go, Terraform, malware analysis, or FedRAMP environments.

Benefits

  • Flexible employee-led remote work model; this role is open to US candidates except those in the San Francisco Bay, New York City, and Washington, D.C. metro areas.
  • Professional development stipend, comprehensive health plans, parental leave, performance-based bonus or variable pay, and equity eligibility.
  • The role includes an initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance, subject to plan terms.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowAWSDatabricksGitGoLinuxPythonSQLTerraform

Categories

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About Samsara

5,001-10,000 employees

Samsara builds a Connected Operations Cloud that uses IoT hardware and software to help fleets and other physical-operations organizations monitor vehicles, assets, and worksites. Its platform spans video-based driver safety, vehicle telematics, equipment monitoring, and mobile workflows, sold as subscriptions with accompanying devices. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, Samsara is a public company on the NYSE (ticker: IOT) serving transportation, construction, manufacturing, field services, and government.

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