Security Engineer - Enterprise Security

About the role:

The Security Engineer II - Enterprise Security is responsible for building, operating, and maintaining Samsara’s core security infrastructure. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Enterprise Security, you will collaborate with a global team of engineers to build a world-class security engineering program utilizing modern technologies across corporate infrastructure.

You take security seriously and strive to build low-friction solutions developed in close partnership with others. You are passionate about building automation and helping to drive insights around potentially malicious activity within enterprise environments. You will use your familiarity with a diverse set of technologies and practices to build a leading program in our industry.

This is a remote position open to candidates in the United Kingdom working in their local time zone. Relocation assistance will not be provided for this role.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software, firmware, and hardware you build will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You want to build for scale: With over 2.3 million IoT devices deployed to our global customers, you will work on a range of new and mature technologies driving scalable innovation for customers across industries driving the world's physical operations.
• You are a life-long learner: We have ambitious goals. Every Samsarian has a growth mindset as we work with a wide range of technologies, challenges, and customers that push us to learn on the go.
• You believe customers are more than a number: Samsara engineers enjoy a rare closeness to the end user and you will have the opportunity to participate in customer interviews, collaborate with customer success and product managers, and use metrics to ensure our work is translating into better customer outcomes.
• You are a team player: Working on our Samsara Security Engineering teams requires a mix of independent effort and collaboration. Motivated by our mission, we’re all racing toward our connected operations vision, and we intend to win—together.

In this role, you will: 

• Contribute to the development, deployment, and management of Samsara’s enterprise security program, including endpoint detection and response, vulnerability management, zero trust workflows, data loss prevention, and more.
• Be a key contributor for one or more security systems or processes, working both independently and collaboratively with other engineers, stakeholders, and vendors to ensure seamless integration and operation.
• Write documentation and runbooks around key enterprise security needs.
• Collaborate with Security Operations to provide subject matter expertise around security investigations and incident management.
• 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

Minimum requirements for the role:

• Demonstrated (2+ years) experience working in enterprise security in the technology sector with clear impact and career progression
• Deep knowledge within enterprise security workflows, such as managing endpoint security toolsets, device trust efforts, email security tooling, secure access service edge delivery, or modern data loss prevention programs.
• Functional knowledge of one or more programming or scripting languages such as Python or Go.
• Proven history of planning and delivering high-impact, complex projects with clarity as part of a wider team.
• Willingness to collaborate and mentor more junior team members and cross-functional partners, including via documentation writing, code pairing, and other activities.

An ideal candidate also has:

• Direct experience building and operating enterprise security programs using modern SaaS platforms such as Zscaler, Crowdstrike, and Splunk.
• Experience securing enterprise data in a primarily Mac endpoint environment.
• Familiarity working with infrastructure as code in AWS and other cloud products.