# Staff Application Security Engineer

**Company**: Samsara
**Location**: United Kingdom
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Samsara, a recently public company listed on the NYSE under the ticker symbol IOT, is seeking a Staff Application Security Engineer to join its team. This role involves driving the technical direction for application security and vulnerability management programs, protecting Samsara's vast footprint end-to-end.

As a Staff Application Security Engineer, you will:

- Lead the strategy, operation, and continuous improvement of Samsara's vulnerability management program and other core application security programs.

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

- Build and champion automation and tooling to scale vulnerability detection and response.

- Set technical and architectural direction for the program.

- Drive remediation by building trust with engineering teams and providing clear 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 and be on call to support critical vulnerability response.

Minimum requirements for the role:

- 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 and deep familiarity with vulnerability scoring frameworks.

- 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.

An ideal candidate also has:

- 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.

Total Rewards: Samsara offers a compensation program with base salary, performance-based bonus, and equity. The company provides flexible working models, professional development stipends, comprehensive health and parental leave plans, and more.

Flexible Working: Samsara embraces a flexible working model that caters to the diverse needs of its teams, supporting remote work and in-person collaboration.

Belonging at Samsara: The company welcomes everyone regardless of their background and is committed to ensuring equal opportunity in employment.

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Python
- JavaScript
- AWS
- SAST
- DAST
- SCA
- Vulnerability Management

### Nice to have
- C/C++
- Security Automation Platforms
- Serverless Frameworks
- AI/LLM Tooling

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