Senior Security Operations Engineer
Samsara· IT Security
San Francisco, CA$135.5k - $227.7kFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Senior Security Operations Engineer responsible for monitoring and responding to security events, leading incidents as Incident Commander, directing digital forensics investigations, and driving security initiatives across the organization. Focus on incident response, runbooks, automation, and collaboration with a global team.
Responsibilities
- Monitor security events and provide technical analysis on alerts
- Lead information security incidents and employee investigations by developing the incident response strategy, lead the execution through incident closure, while providing incident updates to key stakeholders throughout the incident
- Deliver security guidance clearly and concisely for incident response and insider threat initiatives
- Coordinate the building of services, capabilities, integrations, and implementations of technologies to support security operations, incident response, and insider threat
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles as we scale globally and across new offices
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in Security Incident Response
- Ability to communicate investigative findings and strategies to technical staff, executive leadership, and legal
- Ability to build scripts or tools to support Samsara’s investigation processes, with proficiency in Python
- Mentor and train security operation engineers on data collection, analysis, and reporting technical analysis
- Practical experience acting as a lead during security incident response, including monitoring and triaging alerts, and coordinating across teams
- Understanding of analysis and forensics techniques on macOS, Windows, and Linux
- Experience utilizing SIEM tools to perform log reviews
- Experience in cloud architecture and security (AWS, GCP) and cloud-based services
- This role will be part of our Pacific Time Zone shift and therefore must reside in the Pacific Time Zone of the United States or Canada
- This role requires participation in an on-call rotation, with the potential to work outside standard business hours, including late evenings, when responding to high-severity incidents as part of our global incident response team
Skills
Required:Security Incident ResponsePython scriptingCommunicationForensics (macOS, Windows, Linux)SIEMCloud Security (AWS, GCP)
Benefits
- RSU grant with no vesting cliff and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance
- Total rewards including base salary, bonus/variable pay, and equity (for eligible roles)
- Flexible working model with remote options and office accessibility
- Professional development stipend
- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
Last updated Oct 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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