Security Operations Engineer

Overview

As a Security Operations Engineer at Samsara, you will join a global team protecting the company's people, systems and information. The role triages and investigates security alerts, runs incident response, and improves the tools, runbooks and automated workflows used to detect and respond to threats.

What you'll do

• Monitor, triage and investigate security alerts across identity, endpoint, email, SaaS and cloud environments, using our tools, runbooks and escalation procedures.
• Own routine investigations and incidents through to a documented outcome: gather evidence, establish a timeline, assess the activity and explain your conclusions.
• Support experienced responders during major security incidents through evidence collection, technical analysis, and agreed containment and recovery actions.
• Maintain clear investigation records and provide useful updates and handovers to teammates across regions.
• Improve runbooks, help tune detections, and contribute small scripts or automated workflows with guidance and review from teammates.
• Participate in post-incident reviews and turn lessons learned into practical improvements.
• Champion Samsara's cultural principles: Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, and Win as a Team.

What you'll need

• Hands-on experience triaging and investigating security alerts in a security operations, incident response or similar role.
• Experience using security tools such as a SIEM, endpoint detection and response platform, or email security platform to investigate suspicious activity.
• An understanding of common threats, such as phishing, account compromise and suspicious endpoint activity, and the networking, operating system and identity concepts needed to investigate them.
• Ability to query and interpret logs, distinguish evidence from assumptions, and recognise when further investigation or escalation is needed.
• Some scripting experience: you can read, adapt and write small scripts in Python or another language to support an investigation or simplify repetitive work.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including documenting findings, explaining uncertainty and providing effective handovers.
• A careful approach to sensitive information, willingness to ask for help, and openness to feedback.

Nice to have

• Experience investigating activity in cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP, SaaS applications, or identity systems.
• Exposure to writing or tuning detections, threat hunting, or investigating activity across multiple data sources.
• Experience using Python, APIs or automation platforms to improve a security workflow.
• Familiarity with evidence collection or forensic analysis on macOS, Windows or Linux.

Details

• Location: London, England, United Kingdom; remote within the UK (Remote - London; Remote - UK).
• A particular degree or certification is not required.