About the Role
We’re seeking a talented Senior Application/Product Security Engineer with hands-on experience deploying, managing, and operating modern Vulnerability Management platforms. In this role, you’ll work alongside technical product managers and engineers across the company to maintain Samsara’s Vulnerability Management infrastructure and de-risk software vulnerabilities to better protect our customers.
We seek someone who is passionate about leveraging automation to enhance efficiency, is enthusiastic about working with infrastructure-as-code, and has a wealth of experience collaborating with teams to reduce software vulnerabilities. Your contributions will be critical to shaping our overall security and compliance strategy. At Samsara, we value working backwards from winning as an operating principle. Your ability to define success and work with cross-functional stakeholders by working backwards to reach that success is pivotal.
In this role, you will
- Lead and own ongoing operation and maintenance of Samsara’s vulnerability management program, ensuring consistent execution of processes.
- Assist in managing vulnerability scanning tools and help refine detection capabilities to improve accuracy and reduce false positives.
- Work closely with the Vulnerability Technical Program Manager to generate and distribute monthly and quarterly compliance reports.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to track and support the remediation of identified vulnerabilities, providing guidance on best practices.
- Assist in analyzing and triaging vulnerabilities, escalating critical issues to senior security engineers or Security Operations as needed.
- Participate in security incident investigations related to high-profile vulnerabilities, helping gather data and assess potential impact on Samsara infrastructure.
- Contribute to documentation and process improvements to streamline vulnerability management workflows.
- Champion Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) in daily work.
- Be regularly on call to support.
Minimum requirements for the role
- 6+ years of relevant experience with demonstrated impact for security engineering and vulnerability management in an enterprise environment.
- Significant experience with vulnerability management tooling, in particular modern toolsets such as Wiz, or Semgrep.
- Deep subject matter expertise with security engineering best practices for subjects such as CVSS, EPSS.
- Strong familiarity with common security vulnerabilities and the ability to judge their severity and impact on the business.
- Excellent development background with experience in Python or GoLang.
- Strong DevOps, DevSecOps, or SRE background with experience in AWS cloud services, and Terraform.
- Experience using security automation platforms such as Tines and serverless frameworks such as AWS Lambda.
- Deep understanding of Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), or Software Composition Analysis (SCA).
An ideal candidate also has
- Practical experience managing vulnerabilities within a FedRAMP-certified environment.
- Experience integrating vulnerability management into modern CI/CD pipelines with a “shift-left” mentality.