Senior Security Engineer - Threat Detection

Overview

Build and operate the detection signals, pipelines, and tooling used to identify threats against Samsara and its customers. Own detection engineering from hypothesis through production, while evaluating AI-assisted security capabilities and risks.

What you'll do

• Build and improve MITRE ATT&CK-aligned detections across cloud, endpoint, identity, email, and application telemetry.
• Own detection lifecycles from data validation and baselining through deployment, tuning, validation, and retirement.
• Advance detection-as-code workflows with version control, peer review, automated testing, CI/CD, and observability.
• Build integrations for data ingestion, enrichment, and broader threat coverage.
• Evaluate AI-powered security capabilities, including MCP integrations, threat hunting, anomaly detection, and response automation.
• Partner with Security Operations during investigations, incidents, exercises, maintenance, and code pairing.

What you'll need

• 6+ years in security engineering, detection engineering, or a related technology discipline.
• Strong Python and SQL skills for analyzing large datasets and validating detections.
• Hands-on experience with detection-as-code, Git workflows, automated testing, and CI/CD.
• Deep experience with modern SIEM platforms, including data onboarding, queries, dashboards, and threat intelligence enrichment.
• Working knowledge of AWS, Linux, containers, and EDR.
• Ability to build systems from scratch, lead projects independently, and communicate technical concepts clearly.

Nice to have

• Experience with Airflow or Databricks.
• Applied experience with LLMs, agentic frameworks, and MCP integrations.
• Experience with behavioral analytics, anomaly detection, feature engineering, and model evaluation.
• Familiarity with risk-based alerting, ChatOps, distributed alerting, or attack simulation.
• Experience with Go, Terraform, malware analysis, digital forensics, or FedRAMP environments.

Details

• Remote role open to candidates residing in the United States, excluding specified metro areas.
• Annual base salary: USD 157,675–238,500.
• Full-time position.