Samsara · 2 weeks ago
Senior Security Engineer - Security Automation
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$135K/yr - $182K/yr
4+ years expSamsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, enabling organizations to harness IoT data for actionable insights. The Senior Security Engineer will build and maintain Samsara’s core security infrastructure, mentor a global team, and develop automation solutions to enhance security practices.
Business IntelligenceCloud Data ServicesInternet of ThingsSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Provide significant influence and leadership over Samsara’s security automation roadmap and priorities, balancing both near-term and long-term business impact with technical considerations
Develop Security Automation integrations using tools such as Tines, AWS Lambda, and other platforms
Drive efforts to incorporate infrastructure-as-code across the enterprise, focusing on using Terraform to manage configuration in common enterprise applications such as GitHub, Crowdstrike, Splunk, and MDM platforms
Build custom Terraform providers for platforms without existing integrations
Collaborate with other engineers to execute projects, maintain key security systems, and respond to escalations from cross-functional teams
Mentor engineers in the Security team to grow their domain knowledge, automation skills, and communication abilities
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
Qualification
Required
4+ years of relevant experience with demonstrated impact across an organization, with 2+ years in an Enterprise Security role
Deep expertise in enterprise security engineering best practices
Demonstrated experience with security automation platforms such as Tines and serverless frameworks such as AWS Lambda
Extensive experience operating and managing Terraform in an enterprise environment
Excellent development background with experience in Python or Go
Preferred
Experience writing custom Terraform providers and integrating with third party APIs
Advanced knowledge and certification with Tines and AWS Lambda
Experience driving efforts around zero trust, least privilege, just-in-time access management, identity lifecycle management, and data loss prevention
Benefits
Employee-led remote and flexible working
Health benefits
Company
Samsara
Samsara is digitizing the world of physical operations.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$930MKey Investors
General CatalystAndreessen Horowitz
2021-12-15IPO
2020-09-24Secondary Market
2020-05-20Series F· $700M
Leadership Team
Sanjit Biswas
CEO
Ben Calderon
CTO - Hardware & Operations
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