# Senior Security Operations Engineer

**Company**: Samsara
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $135,481-$227,700 USD
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Senior Security Operations Engineer at Samsara, you will collaborate with a global team of engineers to monitor and respond to security events, lead security incidents, and conduct digital forensic investigations.

You will:

- Monitor security events and provide technical analysis on alerts

- Lead information security incidents and employee investigations by developing the incident response strategy and executing through incident closure

- Deliver security guidance clearly and concisely for incident response and insider threat initiatives

- Coordinate the building of services, capabilities, integrations, and implementations of technologies to support security operations, incident response, and insider threat

- Champion Samsara's cultural principles as the team scales globally

Minimum requirements for the role:

- 5+ years of experience in Security Incident Response

- Ability to communicate investigative findings and strategies to technical staff, executive leadership, and legal

- Ability to build scripts or tools to support investigation processes, with proficiency in Python

- Practical experience acting as a lead during security incident response, including monitoring and triaging alerts, and coordinating across teams

- Understanding of analysis and forensics techniques on macOS, Windows, and Linux

- Experience utilizing SIEM tools to perform log reviews

- Experience in cloud architecture and security (AWS, GCP) and cloud-based services

This role requires participation in an on-call rotation, with the potential to work outside standard business hours, including late evenings, when responding to high-severity incidents as part of the global incident response team.

The compensation range for this role is $135,481-$227,700 USD per year.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SIEM tools
- macOS
- Windows
- Linux
- AWS
- GCP
- cloud architecture
- security incident response

### Nice to have
- insider threat initiatives
- employee investigations
- GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH) Certification
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- ISO 27001
- FedRAMP

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