Senior Threat Detection Engineer (Remote)

Samsara; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 158,000 - 239,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work flexibility

Professional development stipend

Health and parental leave

Job summary

Samsara is seeking a Senior Threat Detection Engineer who will build and operate signals, pipelines and tooling for threat discovery across cloud, endpoint, identity, email and app telemetry. You’ll own the detection lifecycle end-to-end, from hypothesis and validation to deployment, tuning and retirement, collaborating across Security and Engineering teams.

Required are 6+ years in security engineering, strong Python/SQL, detection-as-code, CI/CD, and experience with modern SIEMs, AWS, Linux,

Qualifications

• 6+ years in security engineering, detection engineering, or a related technology discipline.
• Strong Python and SQL skills, with experience analyzing large datasets to build and validate detections.
• Hands-on experience with detection-as-code, Git-based workflows, automated testing, and CI/CD deployment.

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 new offices.

Skills

Python

SQL

Detection-as-code

CI/CD

Git workflows

SIEM

AWS

Linux

EDR

Tools

MITRE ATT&CK

CI/CD Tools

SIEM Platforms

AWS

Linux

Containers

Job description

Samsara is seeking a Senior Threat Detection Engineer who will build and operate signals, pipelines and tooling for threat discovery across cloud, endpoint, identity, email and app telemetry. You’ll own the detection lifecycle end-to-end, from hypothesis and validation to deployment, tuning and retirement, collaborating across Security and Engineering teams.

Required are 6+ years in security engineering, strong Python/SQL, detection-as-code, CI/CD, and experience with modern SIEMs, AWS, Linux,