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Senior Security Operations Engineer

Samsara· IT Security
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Hybrid (Pacific Time Zone (US/Canada))$135.5k - $227.7kfull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior Security Operations Engineer responsible for monitoring and responding to security events, leading security incidents as Incident Commander, and conducting digital forensics investigations, with opportunities to build runbooks, automate workflows, and improve security processes.

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
  • Must reside in the Pacific Time Zone of the United States or Canada
  • Participation in an on-call rotation with potential to work outside standard business hours during high-severity incidents

Skills

Required:Security Incident ResponseCommunicationPython scriptingForensicsSIEMCloud securityOn-call / shift work

Benefits

  • Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance
  • Flexible working model including remote options
  • Professional development stipend
  • Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
Last updated Oct 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Samsara

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Samsara's connected operations platform helps 20,000+ operations improve safety, cut costs, and run smarter — built with operators.

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