# Staff Application Security Engineer

**Company**: Samsara
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $165,200-$295,000 USD
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Samsara, the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, helps organizations harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to improve their operations. The company's platform processes 25+ trillion data points annually across thousands of connected devices.

As a Staff Application Security Engineer, you will drive the technical direction for application security and vulnerability management programs. You will lead the strategy, operation, and continuous improvement of Samsara's vulnerability management program, along with other core application security programs.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the ongoing strategy, operation, and continuous improvement of Samsara's vulnerability management program.

- Own and drive down mean time to remediate (MTTR) across the vulnerability backlog.

- Build and champion automation and tooling that scales vulnerability detection and response.

- Set technical and architectural direction for the program.

- Drive remediation by building trust with engineering teams and providing clear, actionable guidance.

- Mentor and level up other engineers on secure design and remediation practices.

- Communicate risk and remediation tradeoffs to engineering leadership.

- Participate in security incident investigations involving high-profile vulnerabilities.

- Be regularly on call to support critical vulnerability response.

Requirements:

- 10+ years of relevant experience as a cloud engineer or security engineer.

- Proficiency in Go, Python, and JavaScript.

- Demonstrated ability to independently set technical and architectural direction for a security program.

- Significant experience with modern vulnerability management tooling.

- Strong AWS cloud services background.

- Deep understanding of Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), and Software Composition Analysis (SCA).

- Hands-on use of AI/LLM tooling in your own security workflow.

Nice to Have:

- Experience with C/C++.

- Background at a cloud-native, AI-forward company.

- Experience with security automation platforms and serverless frameworks.

- Experience integrating vulnerability management into modern CI/CD pipelines.

- Experience spanning SaaS, firmware, and corporate IT security programs.

Compensation:

- Annual Base Salary: $165,200-$295,000 USD

Benefits:

- Flexible working model

- Professional development stipend

- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Python
- JavaScript
- AWS
- SAST
- DAST
- SCA
- AI/LLM

### Nice to have
- C/C++
- security automation platforms
- serverless frameworks

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