The opportunity
Samsara Security is looking for a Senior Threat Detection Engineer. This is a hands-on engineering role: you will build and operate the signals, pipelines, and tooling that power how we discover threats against Samsara and our customers.
What you'll do
You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work, this role won't be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development, countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
You're energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative, ambitious ideas for our customers.
You want to be with the best: At Samsara, we win together, celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a high-caliber team that will encourage you to do your best.
Build, deploy, and continuously improve MITRE ATT&CK–aligned detections: across cloud, endpoint, identity, email, and application telemetry, with clear false-positive thresholds.
Own the full detection lifecycle—from hypothesis, data validation, and: baselining through deployment, tuning, validation, and retirement.
What they're looking for
- Advance our detection-as-code platform through version control, peer review,: automated testing, CI/CD, and improved pipeline reliability and observability.
- Identify emerging threat surfaces and build integrations that strengthen data: ingestion, enrichment, and coverage across internal and third-party systems.
- Evaluate AI-powered security capabilities, including secure MCP integrations,: threat hunting, anomaly detection, and response automation.
- Turn threat intelligence into actionable detection and retrospective scanning.