Senior Security Engineer – Threat Detection

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $157.7k - $238.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security 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

• Build, deploy, and continuously improve MITRE ATT&CK-aligned detections across cloud, endpoint, identity, email, and application telemetry • Own the full detection lifecycle from hypothesis and data validation through deployment, tuning, validation, and retirement • Advance the detection-as-code platform through version control, peer review, automated testing, CI/CD, pipeline reliability, and observability • Identify emerging threat surfaces and build integrations for data ingestion, enrichment, and coverage across internal and third-party systems • Evaluate AI-powered security capabilities, including secure MCP integrations, threat hunting, anomaly detection, and response automation • Turn threat intelligence into actionable detection and retrospective scanning • Partner with Security Operations during investigations, incidents, tabletop exercises, detection maintenance, and code pairing • Report to the Director of Threat Detection and Response and collaborate with Security Operations, Application Security, Enterprise Security, and engineering teams

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years in security engineering, detection engineering, or a related technology discipline • Strong Python and SQL skills • Experience analyzing 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 new technologies quickly, and communicate technical concepts through documentation, RFCs, and presentations • Experience with data orchestration platforms such as Airflow or Databricks • Applied experience with LLMs, agentic frameworks, and MCP integrations, including security risks and failure modes • Experience with behavioral analytics, anomaly detection, feature engineering, and model evaluation • Familiarity with risk-based alerting, ChatOps, distributed alerting, and attack simulation • Additional experience with Go, Terraform, malware analysis, digital forensics, or FedRAMP environments

🏖️ Benefits

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