Security Operations Engineer I

About the role

As a Security Operations Engineer at Samsara, you will join a global team dedicated to protecting our people, systems, and information. You will triage and investigate security alerts, run incident response efforts, and help improve the tools, runbooks, and automated workflows we use to detect and respond to threats.

This role is an ideal next step if you have built foundational experience in a SOC or hands-on security environment and want to develop your technical craft. At Samsara, we view this level as a collaborative apprenticeship: you will develop independent execution skills on discrete investigations, break down incoming alerts into actionable steps, partner with incident stakeholders to remediate findings, and work alongside experienced responders during complex security incidents. You will also explore modern AI tools and insights to simplify routine tasks and optimize your day-to-day workflow.

We are looking for someone who follows the evidence, communicates with intellectual honesty, asks thoughtful questions, and brings a collaborative, pragmatic approach to security operations.

This is a remote position open to candidates based in the United States and in the Pacific Timezone.

You should apply if:

• You enjoy investigating: You like working through unfamiliar activity, connecting evidence from different sources, and explaining what happened.
• You want to improve how security operates: You notice repetitive work, unclear instructions or noisy alerts and want to help make them better.
• You want to develop your craft: You’re looking for hands-on responsibility, feedback from experienced colleagues, and opportunities to grow across incident response and automation.
• You want your work to have real-world impact: You’re motivated by helping protect the technology behind industries that keep the world moving and help workers return home safely.

In this role, you will:

• Monitor, triage and investigate security alerts across identity, endpoint, email, SaaS and cloud environments, using our tools, runbooks and escalation procedures.
• Own routine investigations and incidents through to a documented outcome: gather evidence, establish a timeline, assess the activity and explain your conclusions.
• Support experienced responders during major security incidents through evidence collection, technical analysis, and agreed containment and recovery actions.
• Maintain clear investigation records and provide useful updates and handovers to teammates across regions.
• Improve runbooks, help tune detections, and contribute small scripts or automated workflows with guidance and review from teammates.
• Participate in post-incident reviews and turn lessons learned into practical improvements.
• Champion Samsara’s cultural principles: Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, and Win as a Team.

Minimum requirements for the role:

• Hands-on experience triaging and investigating security alerts in a security operations, incident response or similar role.
• Experience using security tools such as a SIEM, endpoint detection and response platform, or email security platform to investigate suspicious activity.
• An understanding of common threats, such as phishing, account compromise and suspicious endpoint activity, and the networking, operating system and identity concepts needed to investigate them.
• Ability to query and interpret logs, distinguish evidence from assumptions, and recognise when further investigation or escalation is needed.
• Some scripting experience: you can read, adapt and write small scripts in Python or another language to support an investigation or simplify repetitive work.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including documenting findings, explaining uncertainty and providing effective handovers.
• A careful approach to sensitive information, willingness to ask for help, and openness to feedback.

We welcome different routes into security. A particular degree or certification is not required; we’re interested in what you can do, how you approach problems, and what you’re ready to learn next.

An ideal candidate also has:

• Experience investigating activity in cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP, SaaS applications, or identity systems.
• Exposure to writing or tuning detections, threat hunting, or investigating activity across multiple data sources.
• Experience using Python, APIs or automation platforms to improve a security workflow.
• Familiarity with evidence collection or forensic analysis on macOS, Windows or Linux.

You do not need experience in every area above. Bring a solid operational foundation, curiosity and a willingness to learn.