Senior Data Engineer

Summary

Join Samsara's Data Engineering team as a remote Data Engineer and help shape the future of physical operations. Develop and maintain end-to-end data pipelines, work with diverse data sources, and manage critical data pipelines for growth initiatives. You will facilitate data integration, improve data architecture, and write data transformations in SQL/Python. This role requires a Bachelor's degree, 5+ years of data engineering experience, and expertise in cloud-based data technologies. Samsara offers a competitive compensation package, including base salary, bonus, RSUs, and benefits.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data engineering, data science, information technology, or equivalent engineering program
• Excellent interpersonal and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively
• 5+ years of work experience as a data engineer, including 3+ years of experience in designing, developing, testing, and maintaining E2E data pipelines
• Experience with modern cloud-based data-lake and data-warehousing technology stacks, and familiarity with typical data-engineering tools, ETL/ELT, and data-warehousing processes and best practices
• 5+ years in Python, SQL
• Exposure to ETL tools such as Fivetran, DBT or equivalent
• API: Exposure to python based API frameworks for data pipelines
• RDBMS: MySQL, AWS RDS/Aurora MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL-Server or equivalent
• Cloud: AWS, Azure and/or GCP
• Data warehouse: Databricks, Snowflake or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain E2E data pipelines, backend ingestion and participate in the build of Samsara’s Data Platform to enable advanced automation and analytics
• Work with data from a variety of sources including but not limited to: CRM data, Product data, Marketing data, Order flow data, Support ticket volume data
• Manage critical data pipelines to enable our growth initiatives and advanced analytics
• Facilitate data integration and transformation requirements for moving data between applications; ensuring interoperability of applications with data layers and data lake
• Develop and improve the current data architecture, data quality, monitoring, observability and data availability
• Write data transformations in SQL/Python to generate data products consumed by customer systems and Analytics, Marketing Operations, Sales Operations teams
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Comfortable in working with business customers to gather requirements and gain a deep understanding of varied datasets
• A self-starter, motivated, responsible, innovative and technology-driven person who performs well both solo and as a team member
• A proactive problem solver and have good communication as well as project management skills to relay your findings and solutions across technical and non technical audiences
• ETL and Orchestration Experience
• Fivetran, Alteryx or equivalent
• DBT or equivalent
• Logging and Monitoring: One or more of Splunk, DataDog, AWS Cloudwatch or equivalent
• AWS Serverless: AWS API Gateway, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, SecretsManager
• Other: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECR, AWS Fargate, AWS IAM

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