# Staff Application Security Engineer

**Company**: Samsara
**Location**: Seattle
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $165,200-$295,000
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Samsara, the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, helps organizations harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to improve their operations. The company's platform processes 25+ trillion data points annually across thousands of connected devices.

As a Staff Application Security Engineer, you will drive the technical direction for application security and vulnerability management programs. You will lead the ongoing strategy, operation, and continuous improvement of Samsara's vulnerability management program. Your efforts will result in real-world impact, helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and ensure workers return home safely.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the vulnerability management program and define its process

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

- Build and champion automation and tooling for 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

Requirements:

- 10+ years of relevant experience as a cloud engineer or security engineer

- Proficiency in Go, Python, and JavaScript

- Demonstrated ability to 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 security workflow

Nice to Have:

- 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

Compensation:

- Annual Base Salary: $165,200-$295,000 USD

- Eligible for an initial RSU grant and ongoing refresh opportunities

- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans, flexible working model, and professional development stipend

## Skills

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

### Nice to have
- C/C++
- Security Automation Platforms
- Serverless Frameworks
- CI/CD Pipelines

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