Senior Software Engineer II, Developer Experience

Summary

Join Samsara's Developer Experience team as a Senior Backend Engineer and play a key role in designing and developing the tools and processes used by Samsara engineers. This remote position, open to Canadian residents, offers the opportunity to impact global industries by building scalable, efficient applications. You will build platform tooling, improve feature delivery efficiency, create best practices, research customer needs, and guide projects from concept to implementation. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential. Samsara offers a competitive compensation package including base salary, bonus, RSUs, and benefits.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience working professionally with modern development practices
• Strong programming/coding fundamentals in a language such as Java, Python, or Golang
• Experience designing and architecting large, high-scale systems
• A focus on and desire to mentor fellow engineers
• An ability to estimate, communicate, and deliver upon project milestones with your team

Responsibilities

• Build platform tooling for product teams to self-service and own delivery and operations of their services
• Improve the efficiency of delivering new features to production through understanding engineering pain points and friction and proposing solutions that improve productivity across many teams
• Create best practices and support systems for engineers to deliver the best customer experience in the industry
• Research and deeply understand the needs of our customers (both internal and external)
• Guide projects from concept, to ideation, to implementation, to feedback and improvements
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Design, Product, Customer Success, and Engineering stakeholders to create sustained and aligned impact
• 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

• In-depth experience working with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure or GCP
• Is adept at building and using observability tools, frameworks, and standards
• Knows their way around a UNIX shell and a Linux operating system
• Enjoys thinking about systems - their life cycles, edge cases, interactions, and failure modes
• Enjoys working collaboratively with developers of different focuses (such as frontend, mobile, firmware, ML/computer vision)

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package
• Employee-led remote and flexible working
• Health benefits
• Samsara for Good charity fund