Remote Senior Threat Detection Engineer

Samsara Inc.; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 158,000 - 239,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsara is hiring a Senior Threat Detection Engineer who will build and operate signals, pipelines, and tooling to detect threats across cloud, endpoint, identity, email, and application telemetry. You will own the detection lifecycle from hypothesis to deployment and retirement, improving detection-as-code and CI/CD in a fast-growing security team.

You will collaborate with Security Operations, Engineering, and Guard teams to scale detections, evaluate AI capabilities, and integrate data across

Qualifications

• 6+ years in security engineering or detection engineering.
• Strong Python and SQL skills with large datasets for detections.
• Hands-on detection-as-code, Git-based workflows, automated testing, and CI/CD deployment.
• Deep experience with modern SIEM platforms with data onboarding and threat intelligence enrichment.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Partner closely with Security Operations during investigations, incidents, table top exercises, detection maintenance, and code pairing.
• Champion Samsara’s cultural principles as we scale globally and across offices.

Skills

Python

SQL

Detection-as-code

Git workflows

CI/CD

SIEM

AWS

Linux

EDR

Tools

Airflow

Databricks

Terraform

Job description

Samsara is hiring a Senior Threat Detection Engineer who will build and operate signals, pipelines, and tooling to detect threats across cloud, endpoint, identity, email, and application telemetry. You will own the detection lifecycle from hypothesis to deployment and retirement, improving detection-as-code and CI/CD in a fast-growing security team.

You will collaborate with Security Operations, Engineering, and Guard teams to scale detections, evaluate AI capabilities, and integrate data across