Sr. Security Engineer I - Enterprise Security

Samsara • Austin, TX

2d • Remote

About The Position

The Senior Security Engineer I - Enterprise Security is responsible for building, operating, and maintaining Samsara’s core security infrastructure. You will collaborate with a global team of engineers to help build a world-class security engineering program utilizing modern principles across corporate infrastructure.
You take security seriously and strive to build low-friction solutions developed in close partnership with others. You are passionate about building automated alerting and response capabilities and helping to drive insights around potentially malicious activity within production environments. You enjoy building tools and workflows from scratch, maintaining active programs, and threading security into company processes to meet business needs. You will use your familiarity with a diverse set of technologies and practices to build a leading program in our industry. You enjoy teaching and supporting team members, and helping junior engineers develop their skills and security instincts.
This is a remote position open to candidates residing in California, Hawaii, Oregon, Nevada, and Washington except for San Francisco Bay Area Metro. Relocation assistance will not be provided for this role.

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.

Nice To Haves

• 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

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed