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Senior Security Engineer - Threat Detection

Samsara· IT Security
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Hybrid (United States (excluding San Francisco Bay Area, NYC Metro Area, and Washington, D.C. Metro Area))$157.7k - $238.5kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior Threat Detection Engineer at Samsara, a hands-on role building and operating the detection platform, data pipelines, and tooling to discover threats for Samsara and customers. Reports to the Director of Threat Detection and Response; collaborates with Security Operations, Application Security, Enterprise Security, and engineering teams. Remote-friendly with location constraints (US excluding SF Bay Area, NYC Metro Area, and Washington, D.C. Metro Area).

Responsibilities

  • Build, deploy, and continuously improve MITRE ATT&CK–aligned detections across cloud, endpoint, identity, email, and application telemetry, with clear false-positive thresholds.
  • Own the full detection lifecycle—from hypothesis, data validation, and baselining through deployment, tuning, validation, and retirement.
  • Advance our detection-as-code platform through version control, peer review, automated testing, CI/CD, and improved pipeline reliability and observability.
  • Identify emerging threat surfaces and build integrations that strengthen data ingestion, enrichment, and coverage across internal and third-party systems.
  • Evaluate AI-powered security capabilities, including secure MCP integrations, threat hunting, anomaly detection, and response automation.
  • Turn threat intelligence into actionable detection and retrospective scanning.
  • Partner closely with Security Operations during investigations, incidents, table top exercises, detection maintenance, and code pairing.
  • Champion Samsara’s cultural principles as we scale globally.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in security engineering, detection engineering, or a related technology discipline.
  • Strong Python and SQL skills, with experience analyzing large datasets to build and validate detections.
  • Hands-on experience with detection-as-code, Git-based workflows, automated testing, and CI/CD deployment.
  • Deep experience with modern SIEM platforms, including data onboarding, advanced queries, dashboards, and threat intelligence enrichment.
  • Working knowledge of AWS, Linux, containers, and EDR.
  • Proven ability to build systems from scratch, lead projects independently, learn new technologies quickly, and communicate technical concepts clearly through documentation, RFCs, and presentations.

Skills

Required:PythonSQLDetection engineeringGit-based workflowsSIEMAWSThreat intelligenceCommunication

Benefits

  • Total Rewards includes base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity eligibility; RSU grants with no vesting cliff; ongoing refresh opportunities.
  • Flexible, employee-led remote model; professional development stipend; comprehensive health and parental leave plans.
Last updated Oct 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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