# Senior Security Engineer - Threat Detection

**Company**: Samsara
**Location**: Seattle
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $157,675-$238,500 USD
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Samsara Security is looking for a Senior Threat Detection Engineer. This is a hands-on engineering role where you will build and operate the signals, pipelines, and tooling that power how we discover threats against Samsara and our customers.

You will write detections and build the machinery that makes the next detection faster to develop, safer to deploy, and measurable in production. You will report to the Director of Threat Detection and Response and work closely with Security Operations, Application Security, and Enterprise Security, as well as engineering teams across the company.

In this role, you will:

- 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, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles as we scale globally and across new offices.

Minimum requirements for the role:

- 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.

An ideal candidate also has:

- Experience with data orchestration platforms such as Airflow or Databricks.

- Applied experience with LLMs, agentic frameworks, and MCP integrations, including their security risks and failure modes.

- Experience with behavioral analytics, anomaly detection, feature engineering, and model evaluation.

- Familiarity with risk-based alerting, ChatOps, distributed alerting, and attack simulation.

- Additional experience with Go, Terraform, malware analysis, digital forensics, or FedRAMP environments.

The compensation range for this role is $157,675-$238,500 USD per year. The role is eligible for an initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff, and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- detection-as-code
- Git-based workflows
- CI/CD deployment
- SIEM platforms
- AWS
- Linux
- containers
- EDR

### Nice to have
- Airflow
- Databricks
- LLMs
- agentic frameworks
- MCP integrations
- behavioral analytics
- anomaly detection
- feature engineering
- model evaluation
- Go
- Terraform
- malware analysis
- digital forensics
- FedRAMP environments

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