Security Operations Engineer I
About The Position
As a Security Operations Engineer at Samsara, you will join a global team dedicated to protecting the company’s people, systems, and information. You will triage and investigate security alerts, run incident response efforts, and help improve the tools, runbooks, and automated workflows used to detect and respond to threats. This role is suited to someone with foundational SOC or hands-on security experience who wants to further develop their technical skills. The position offers collaborative apprenticeship, with opportunities to independently handle discrete investigations, turn alerts into actionable steps, work with incident stakeholders to remediate findings, and support experienced responders during complex incidents. You will also explore modern AI tools and insights to simplify routine tasks and improve daily workflows. This is a remote position open to candidates based in the United States and in the Pacific Timezone.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience triaging and investigating security alerts in a security operations, incident response, or similar role.
- Experience using security tools such as a SIEM, endpoint detection and response platform, or email security platform to investigate suspicious activity.
- Understanding of common threats such as phishing, account compromise, and suspicious endpoint activity, as well as the networking, operating system, and identity concepts needed to investigate them.
- Ability to query and interpret logs, distinguish evidence from assumptions, and recognize when further investigation or escalation is needed.
- Some scripting experience, including the ability to read, adapt, and write small scripts in Python or another language to support investigations or simplify repetitive work.
- Clear written and verbal communication, including documenting findings, explaining uncertainty, and providing effective handovers.
- A careful approach to sensitive information, willingness to ask for help, and openness to feedback.
Nice To Haves
- Experience investigating activity in cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP, SaaS applications, or identity systems.
- Exposure to writing or tuning detections, threat hunting, or investigating activity across multiple data sources.
- Experience using Python, APIs, or automation platforms to improve a security workflow.
- Familiarity with evidence collection or forensic analysis on macOS, Windows, or Linux.
Responsibilities
- Monitor, triage, and investigate security alerts across identity, endpoint, email, SaaS, and cloud environments using tools, runbooks, and escalation procedures.
- Own routine investigations and incidents through documented outcomes by gathering evidence, establishing timelines, assessing activity, and explaining conclusions.
- Support experienced responders during major security incidents through evidence collection, technical analysis, and agreed containment and recovery actions.
- Maintain clear investigation records and provide useful updates and handovers to teammates across regions.
- Improve runbooks, help tune detections, and contribute small scripts or automated workflows with guidance and review from teammates.
- Participate in post-incident reviews and turn lessons learned into practical improvements.
- Champion Samsara’s cultural principles: Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, and Win as a Team.
Benefits
- Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance, subject to plan terms and conditions.
- Performance-based bonus or variable pay and equity for eligible roles.
- Professional development stipend.
- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans.
- Flexible, employee-led remote work model.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
