Samsara
Senior Security Engineer - Threat Detection
$158K–$238K
Remote - Dallas +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Location
- Remote - Dallas
Remote - CA - Experience
- 6+ years in security engineering, detection engineering, or a related technology discipline.
- Visa sponsorship
- Not stated.
About the job
Build and operate Samsara’s threat-detection platform, including detection content, data pipelines, deployment tooling, and AI-assisted security capabilities.
What you'll do
- Develop and manage MITRE ATT&CK–aligned detections and their full lifecycle across cloud, endpoint, identity, email, and application telemetry.
- Improve detection-as-code pipelines, integrations, reliability, testing, and observability.
- Evaluate AI-powered security capabilities and turn threat intelligence into detections and retrospective scans.
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 Airflow or Databricks.
- Applied experience with LLMs, agentic frameworks, and MCP integrations, including security risks and failure modes.
Pay
$157,675 — $238,500 USD annual base salary
Tools
Python, SQL, AWS, Linux, Airflow, Databricks, Go, Terraform
AI focus
Evaluate AI-powered security capabilities, including secure MCP integrations, threat hunting, anomaly detection, and response automation; the role also involves assessing LLMs, agentic frameworks, risks, and failure modes.
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