Staff Software Engineer - Identity and Access Management

Summary

Join Samsara's Identity and Access Management (IAM) team as a Staff Software Engineer and play a leading role in securing our cloud, mobile, and embedded software and infrastructure. You will lead organization-wide projects, solve complex security problems, and improve security tools and processes. This remote position, open to Canadian residents, requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience, 12+ years of software development experience (4+ in an architect or leadership role), and deep expertise in authentication and authorization. You will impact industries globally, build for scale, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Samsara offers a competitive compensation package, including health benefits and flexible working.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• Deep subject matter expertise in authentication and authorization in multi-tenant platforms
• 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
• Know your way around a UNIX shell and a Linux operating system

Responsibilities

• Lead organization-wide projects and develop tools that improve the security and compliance posture of our platform
• Deliver impact by solving the hardest security and compliance problems and enabling products to reach the market quickly and successfully
• Identify and guide prioritization of opportunities for improvement to our security tools and processes
• Increase visibility and knowledge of security best practices to raise the bar across the company
• Act as a multiplier for the team, elevating the impact and output of every team member
• Influence the vision and roadmap for security and compliance to support our rapid growth
• Represent Samsara in external-facing forums: writing on our engineering blog, speaking at conferences, collaborating with vendors
• 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
• Has experience working with processes that scale well for a team of 500+ engineers
• Has experience influencing a company’s product and infrastructure security 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, finance, and engineers with different focuses (frontend, mobile, firmware, computer vision, ML)

Benefits

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