Staff Application Security Engineer

🕒 September 15

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $165.2k - $295k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💻 Application Engineer

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Samsara

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2015

📦 Logistics

🏗️ Construction

🏥 Healthcare

💰 Seed Round on 2014-08

Logistics • Construction • Healthcare

Samsara is a technology company that provides a comprehensive operations platform aimed at improving the efficiency, safety, and sustainability of organizations. Their solutions include video-based safety, vehicle telematics, equipment monitoring, workforce applications, and site visibility. Samsara serves a wide range of industries, including transportation, logistics, construction, and government. The platform connects people, systems, and data, enabling organizations to make faster, data-informed decisions. Samsara's Connected Operations technology helps complex organizations operate more effectively by offering real-time GPS, proactive alerts, compliance training, and asset tracking.

📋 Description

• Lead the strategy, operation, and continuous improvement of Samsara's vulnerability management and application security programs • Drive down mean time to remediate across the vulnerability backlog • Build and champion automation and tooling for vulnerability detection and response across cloud, firmware/IoT, and corporate systems • Set technical and architectural direction and translate strategic priorities into execution plans • Drive remediation by partnering with engineering teams and providing actionable guidance • Partner with technical program management on reporting • Mentor and develop engineers on secure design and remediation practices • Communicate risk and remediation tradeoffs to engineering leadership • Participate in security incident investigations involving high-profile vulnerabilities • Be regularly on call for critical vulnerability response • Champion and embed Samsara's cultural principles as the company scales globally

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience as a cloud engineer or security engineer • Hands-on vulnerability management across a broad, multi-product enterprise environment • Proficiency in Go, Python, and JavaScript • Ability to independently set technical and architectural direction for a security program • Ability to drive remediation across a broad, multi-surface environment without direct authority over fixing teams • Significant experience with vulnerability management tooling such as Wiz and Semgrep • Deep familiarity with CVSS and EPSS vulnerability scoring frameworks • Strong AWS cloud services background • Deep understanding of SAST, DAST, and SCA • Hands-on use of AI/LLM tooling in security workflows • Experience with C/C++ relevant to firmware and embedded systems (ideal) • Experience at a cloud-native, AI-forward company building agentic or AI-driven products (ideal) • Experience with security automation platforms such as Tines and serverless frameworks such as AWS Lambda (ideal) • Experience integrating vulnerability management into CI/CD pipelines with a shift-left mentality (ideal) • Experience spanning SaaS, firmware, and corporate IT security programs (ideal) • Experience managing vulnerabilities within a FedRAMP-certified environment (ideal) • Experience building or extending AI copilots/agents for security workflows (ideal)

🏖️ Benefits

• Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff • Ongoing equity refresh opportunities tied to performance • Performance-based bonus/variable pay • Equity for eligible roles • Flexible, employee-led remote model • Professional development stipend • Comprehensive health plans • Parental leave plans • Flexible working model • Remote work support where aligned with operational requirements