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From the employer's careers site First seen 27 Oct 2026

Senior Security Operations Engineer

Samsara San Francisco, CA senior full-time

Salary

$135,481-$227,700 USD per year

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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

Nice to have

  • insider threat initiatives
  • employee investigations
  • GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH) Certification
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework
  • ISO 27001
  • FedRAMP

Ready to apply?

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