Who we are
Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, which is a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations. At Samsara, we are helping improve the safety, efficiency and sustainability of the physical operations that power our global economy. Representing more than 40% of global GDP, these industries are the infrastructure of our planet, including agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing — and we are excited to help digitally transform their operations at scale.
Working at Samsara means you’ll help define the future of physical operations and be on a team that’s shaping an exciting array of product solutions, including Video-Based Safety, Vehicle Telematics, Apps and Driver Workflows, Equipment Monitoring, and Site Visibility. As part of a recently public company, you’ll have the autonomy and support to make an impact as we build for the long term.
About the role:
Samsara is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Data Platform team, which builds the core infrastructure that powers the company’s data products and insights at scale. You will design and maintain a reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure for moving, cataloging, and processing petabytes of data.
Your work will enable engineers, data scientists, and analysts across Samsara to develop products for our customers, ML models, and operational insights. You’ll work on foundational systems like our data lake/lakehouse, distributed compute and orchestration infrastructure, internal data libraries, and ingestion frameworks.
This role is ideal for experienced software engineers who have worked on data infrastructure, platforms, or backend ingestion systems and are comfortable operating in a fast-paced, product-centric environment.
This is not an analytics or data engineering role. If your experience centers around business logic, SQL data modeling, ETL tools (e.g. dbt, Informatica, Fivetran), or BI/reporting platforms (e.g. Looker, Tableau), this position is likely not the right fit.
This is a remote position open to candidates based in the United States. Relocation assistance will not be provided for this role.
You should apply if:
- You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software, firmware, and hardware you build will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
- You want to build for scale: With over 2.3 million IoT devices deployed to our global customers, you will work on a range of new and mature technologies driving scalable innovation for customers across industries, driving the world's physical operations.
- You are a lifelong learner: We have ambitious goals. Every Samsarian has a growth mindset as we work with a wide range of technologies, challenges, and customers that push us to learn on the go.
- You believe customers are more than a number: Samsara engineers enjoy a rare closeness to the end user, and you will have the opportunity to participate in customer interviews, collaborate with customer success and product managers, and use metrics to ensure our work is translating into better customer outcomes.
- You are a team player: Working on our Samsara Engineering teams requires a mix of independent effort and collaboration. Motivated by our mission, we’re all racing toward our connected operations vision, and we intend to win together.
- Design, build, and operate high-scale ingestion pipelines from OLTP sources (RDS, DynamoDB) or internal APIs (e.g. gRPC) into our data lakehouse (Delta Lake on S3).
- Develop and own distributed data infrastructure and internal tools (e.g. orchestration frameworks, metadata services, data catalogs).
- Improve reliability, observability, and developer experience for Spark (Databricks) and potentially other future compute engines.
- Build internal libraries, APIs, and interfaces (Go, Python) used across Samsara to move and access data.
- Collaborate with engineers across infrastructure, data science, product engineering, and security to scale our platform.
- Work with technologies like Spark, Golang, Python, Terraform, and AWS (S3, Lambda, SQS, Kinesis).
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.
Minimum requirements for the role:
- 4+ years of professional software experience in production environments
- 4+ years building or maintaining large-scale, production-grade data platforms (including data lakes)
- Strong expertise with Apache Spark
- Strong AWS experience (S3, Lambda, SQS, Kinesis)
An ideal candidate also has:
- Experience with our core data platform stack: Spark (Databricks), Delta Lake, or similar (Iceberg, Hudi) on object stores.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Familiarity with data catalogs and discovery tools (e.g. Unity Catalog, Hive Metastore, DataHub, Amundsen).
- Experience with streaming data, event-driven architectures, or handling late-arriving data
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect).
At Samsara, we welcome everyone regardless of their background. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, and other characteristics protected by law. We depend on the unique approaches of our team members to help us solve complex problems and want to ensure that Samsara is a place where people from all backgrounds can make an impact.
Benefits
Full time employees receive a competitive total compensation package along with employee-led remote and flexible working, health benefits, Samsara for Good charity fund, and much, much more. Take a look at our Benefits site to learn more.
Accommodations
Samsara is an inclusive work environment, and we are committed to ensuring equal opportunity in employment for qualified persons with disabilities. Please email accessibleinterviewing@samsara.com or click here if you require any reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process.
Flexible Working
At Samsara, we embrace a flexible working model that caters to the diverse needs of our teams. Our offices are open for those who prefer to work in-person and we also support remote work where it aligns with our operational requirements. For certain positions, being close to one of our offices or within a specific geographic area is important to facilitate collaboration, access to resources, or alignment with our service regions. In these cases, the job description will clearly indicate any working location requirements. Our goal is to ensure that all members of our team can contribute effectively, whether they are working on-site, in a hybrid model, or fully remotely. All offers of employment are contingent upon an individual’s ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the company and in the specified work location, if applicable.
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