Description
Samsara, a pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, is seeking a Staff Application Security Engineer to drive the technical direction of its application security and vulnerability management programs.
The successful candidate will lead the ongoing strategy, operation, and continuous improvement of Samsara's vulnerability management program, along with other core application security programs. They will own and drive down mean time to remediate (MTTR) across the vulnerability backlog, build and champion automation and tooling, and set technical and architectural direction for the program.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the vulnerability management program and other core application security programs
- Driving down MTTR across the vulnerability backlog
- Building and championing automation and tooling for vulnerability detection and response
- Setting technical and architectural direction for the program
- Driving remediation by building trust with engineering teams
- Mentoring and leveling up other engineers on secure design and remediation practices
- Communicating risk and remediation tradeoffs to engineering leadership
- Participating in security incident investigations
- Being regularly on call to support critical vulnerability response
The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of relevant experience as a cloud engineer or security engineer, proficiency in Go, Python, and JavaScript, and demonstrated ability to independently set technical and architectural direction for a security program.
In return, Samsara offers a competitive salary ranging from $165,200 to $295,000 USD, an initial RSU grant, and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance. The company also provides a flexible, employee-led remote model, a professional development stipend, comprehensive health and parental leave plans, and more.