Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Samsara's Smart Trailer and Connected Equipment team as a full-stack engineer and contribute to the development of end-to-end solutions for tracking and managing equipment. This remote US-based role requires 12+ years of software development experience, including 4+ years in an architect or leadership position. You will work with a range of technologies, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and mentor other engineers. The ideal candidate possesses expertise in web services, algorithm development, and high-quality code writing. Samsara offers a competitive compensation package including base salary, bonus, RSUs, and benefits.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• 12+ years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions with at least 4 of those years in an architect or leadership role
• Demonstrated ability to ship production-quality software in a dynamic environment
• Expertise working with web services at massive scale deployed on Cloud providers such as AWS or Azure
• Is an expert in writing high quality, performant and maintainable code in a modern programming language
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, with a demonstrated ability to manage technical discussions

Responsibilities

• Bring a customer-focused mindset to all development, balancing the need to iterate quickly and deliver customer wins iteratively
• Partner with the Engineering Manager to advocate for long-term technical health of our products alongside the product priorities
• Act as a force multiplier on the team by leveraging other engineers and personally exemplify how to deliver value at Samsara
• Mentor other engineers by actively participating in design and implementation conversations across the team
• 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

• Has 15+ years of relevant industry experience in software development
• Prior experience working with geolocation data, geofences, BLE, Maps
• Prior experience measuring and evaluating algorithms using metrics and iterating to improve the algorithm accuracy
• Built and shipped a 0-1 product and understands how to scale for growth and business impact post that phase
• Experience working with ML engineers and applied scientists to deploy machine learning models to production
• Understanding of how to build for stability and growth while being responsive to customer feedback
• Has experience influencing a company’s product and infrastructure strategy
• Enjoys leading and mentoring engineers to think about systems - their life cycles, edge cases, and failure modes
• Enjoys enabling cross-functional collaboration between product, design, and engineers with different focuses (frontend, mobile, firmware, hardware, computer vision, ML)

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
• Base salary + bonus/variable + restricted stock unit awards (RSUs) for eligible roles
• For eligible roles, a new hire RSU award may be awarded at the time of hire, and additional RSU refresh grants may be awarded annually
• Top performers in eligible roles may receive above-market equity refresh awards which allow employees to achieve higher market
• $157,360 — $281,000 USD