Sr. Security Engineer - Enterprise Security

Samsara is a pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, enabling organizations to harness IoT data for actionable insights. The Senior Security Engineer will be responsible for building and maintaining Samsara’s core security infrastructure while collaborating with global teams to enhance security engineering programs.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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