About the role:
- 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-calibre team that will encourage you to do your best.
In this role, you will:
- Own and drive execution of multiple key enterprise security systems, ensuring they are well-integrated, documented, and effectively support Samsara's security goals.
- Write clear, concise documentation and runbooks for enterprise security workflows.
- Collaborate with partners across Engineering, IT, and Security to ensure proper implementation of security tools and policies.
- Occasionally assist the Security Operations team during security investigations, acting as a technical subject matter expert within your domain.
- Partner with engineering teams to triage and support remediation of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in systems and applications.
- Mentor engineers in the Security team to grow their domain knowledge, tool-specific skills, and communication abilities.
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara's cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.
Minimum requirements for the role:
- 8+ years of relevant experience with demonstrated impact and influence across a large part of an organization, with 5+ years in an Enterprise Security specific role.
- Deep expertise in enterprise security engineering best practices.
- Strong scripting skills with Python, including experience building tools and automations.
- Demonstrated experience building, integrating, and maintaining enterprise security tools.
- Strong familiarity with common security problems and the ability to independently judge their severity and impact on the business.
- Hands-on experience with automation tools (e.g., Tines, AWS Lambda) and common security platforms (e.g., Crowdstrike, Zscaler, Wiz).
- Track record of delivering large scope, impactful work across multiple quarters and collaborating effectively across teams.
An ideal candidate also has:
- Experience driving efforts around least privilege, just-in-time access management, identity lifecycle management, and data loss prevention.
- A history of building out security programs using modern SaaS platforms such as Zscaler, Crowdstrike, Wiz, Splunk, and other tools.
- Experience with infrastructure as code deployments using Terraform.
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