Remote Senior Cloud Governance Engineer (IAM & Security)

Samsara; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Professional development stipend

Health benefits & parental leave

Job summary

Samsara in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Cloud Governance Platform team. You will design and build core components for cloud IAM, security controls, and software supply-chain protections across AWS and GCP.

You will contribute to roadmaps, translate regulatory requirements into automated controls, and collaborate with cross-functional teams while upholding Samsara’s principles.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of industry experience in software development.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Strong programming/coding and design fundamentals (Golang, Python or similar).
• Deep hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar).
• Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM systems, threat models, and mitigations.
• Experience designing and operating highly reliable, scalable distributed systems.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core components of Samsara's Cloud Governance Platform, contributing hands-on to cloud IAM, security controls, compliance enforcement, and software supply-chain security capabilities.
• Contribute to the roadmap for governance and security tooling across AWS and GCP, bringing engineering judgment to prioritization discussions.
• Translate regulatory and compliance requirements into automated, continuously enforced controls through direct implementation.
• Build and maintain software supply-chain security tooling, including SAST, DAST, and secure CI/CD pipeline patterns.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Security, Compliance, and Product Engineering teams to implement solutions for cross-functional risk and governance problems.
• Share technical knowledge with teammates through code reviews, pairing, and day-to-day collaboration.
• Clearly communicate technical approach, tradeoffs, and risks in design docs and team discussions.
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles as we scale globally and across new offices.

Skills

Golang

Python

Distributed systems

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

AWS

GCP

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Samsara in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Cloud Governance Platform team. You will design and build core components for cloud IAM, security controls, and software supply-chain protections across AWS and GCP.

You will contribute to roadmaps, translate regulatory requirements into automated controls, and collaborate with cross-functional teams while upholding Samsara’s principles.