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Staff Application Security Engineer

Samsara· IT Security
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About the role

Senior role leading Samsara's application security program, focusing on vulnerability management across cloud, firmware/IoT, and corporate systems. Remote UK-based position with leadership, strategy, and hands-on execution responsibilities.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the ongoing strategy, operation, and continuous improvement of Samsara's vulnerability management program, and other core application security programs.
  • Own and drive down mean time to remediation (MTTR) across the vulnerability backlog.
  • Build and champion automation and tooling to scale vulnerability detection and response across cloud, firmware/IoT, and corporate systems.
  • Set technical and architectural direction for the program and translate leadership priorities into execution plans.
  • Drive remediation by partnering with engineering teams and technical program management for reporting.
  • Mentor and level up other engineers on secure design and remediation practices.
  • Communicate risk and remediation tradeoffs to engineering leadership in actionable terms.
  • Participate in security incident investigations involving high-profile vulnerabilities.
  • Be regularly on call to support critical vulnerability response.
  • Champion Samsara’s cultural principles while scaling globally.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of relevant experience as a cloud engineer or security engineer, including hands-on vulnerability management across a multi-product enterprise environment.
  • Proficiency in Go, Python, and JavaScript.
  • Ability to independently set technical and architectural direction for a security program and drive remediation across a broad environment without direct authority.
  • Significant experience with modern vulnerability management tooling (e.g., Wiz, Semgrep) and familiarity with CVSS and EPSS.
  • Strong AWS cloud services background.
  • Deep understanding of SAST, DAST, and SCA.
  • Hands-on use of AI/LLM tooling in security workflows and insight into AI's impact on threat landscape.
  • Location: based in central or eastern timezones.

Skills

Required:Vulnerability management program leadershipGoPythonJavaScriptCloud security (AWS)SAST/DAST/SCAVulnerability tooling (e.g., Wiz, Semgrep)AI/LLM in security workflows
Last updated Sep 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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