Senior Security Engineer - Threat Detection

About the role:

Samsara’s Security team is looking for a Senior Threat Detection Engineer. This hands-on technical role involves threat detection and hunting, security orchestration and automation, incident response, custom tool development, and detection infrastructure management. 

You will report to the Director of Information Security and collaborate with a global team of engineers to build a world-class threat detection program covering corporate and production environments. You have a deep understanding of threat actors, attack techniques and the ability to analyze large data sets. You are passionate about security and strive to build low-friction solutions developed in close partnership with others.

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-caliber team that will encourage you to do your best. 

Click here to learn about what we value at Samsara. 

• Contribute to long-term strategy and vision for the team.
• Work with the entire detection pipeline, including log ingest, enrichment, rule writing, runbook creation, alert triage, and metric gathering.
• Orchestrate automations for detection and response.
• Flag and fix security risks identified through threat detection duties.
• Drive concurrent projects while maintaining operational responsibilities.
• Work closely with other teams, such as Business Technology, Legal, Product Security, Security Operations, and Product Engineering.
• Serve as a technical resource during major incidents.
• Collaborate with and mentor security operations analysts, including investigation support, project work, and code pairing.
• 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:

• Deep subject matter expertise within security engineering and threat detection, including extensive experience in AWS cloud services, Linux, Containers, EDR, and modern SIEM platforms.
• Strong engineering background with experience in Python or Go.
• Significant (4+ years) experience performing security engineering in the technology sector.

An ideal candidate also has:

• Experience building custom tooling and working with open-source solutions
• Experience performing attack simulations to develop new detections and validate existing detections.
• Familiarity working with detections as code, including git, peer reviews, linting, and CI/CD.
• Experience creating and managing infrastructure as code.
• Experience driving efforts around least privilege, just-in-time access management, and identity lifecycle management.

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