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Senior Security Engineer – Enterprise Security
| Company | Samsara |
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| Location | United States |
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| Salary | $157675 – $212000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant experience with demonstrated impact and influence across a large part of an organization, with 5+ years in an Enterprise Security specific role.
- Deep expertise in enterprise security engineering best practices.
- 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 large scope, impactful work across multiple quarters and collaborating effectively across teams.
Responsibilities
- Own and drive execution of multiple key enterprise security systems, ensuring they are well-integrated, documented, and effectively support Samsara’s security goals.
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience driving efforts around 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 Zscaler, Crowdstrike, Wiz, Splunk, and other tools.
- Experience with infrastructure as code deployments using Terraform.
