Samsara
Senior Security Engineer - Threat Detection
$158K–$238K
Remote - CA · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years in security engineering, detection engineering, or a related technology discipline.
About the job
Build and operate threat detection content, pipelines, and tooling that identify threats against Samsara and its customers.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain MITRE ATT&CK–aligned detections across cloud, endpoint, identity, email, and application telemetry, managing them through the full detection lifecycle.
- Advance the detection-as-code platform with version control, testing, CI/CD, and improved reliability and observability.
- Integrate threat intelligence and evaluate AI-powered security capabilities, partnering with Security Operations on investigations and incidents.
What they ask for
- Strong Python and SQL skills, including analyzing large datasets to build and validate detections.
- Hands-on experience with detection-as-code, Git-based workflows, automated testing, and CI/CD deployment.
- Deep experience with modern SIEM platforms, including data onboarding, advanced queries, dashboards, and threat intelligence enrichment.
- Working knowledge of AWS, Linux, containers, and EDR.
Nice to have
- Experience with data orchestration platforms such as Airflow or Databricks.
- Applied experience with LLMs, agentic frameworks, and MCP integrations, including their security risks and failure modes.
Pay
USD $157,675 — $238,500 annual base salary
Tools
Python, SQL, AWS, Linux, EDR, Airflow, Databricks, MCP
AI focus
Evaluate AI-powered security capabilities, including secure MCP integrations, threat hunting, anomaly detection, and response automation; apply LLMs and agentic frameworks while accounting for security risks and failure modes.
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