Staff Software Engineer - Platform

Summary

Join Samsara's Platform team as a Staff Engineer and spearhead the technical direction, driving the development of foundational systems. You will be a technical leader, bringing fresh ideas and expertise to guide the team's technical design and architecture. Work on critical projects alongside highly-skilled engineers, pushing Samsara's technical capabilities forward. This remote position, open to candidates in Poland and the UK, offers the chance to impact global industries by building software that improves safety and efficiency. You'll build for scale, working with millions of IoT devices, and collaborate closely with customers and other teams. Samsara offers a competitive compensation package and flexible working arrangements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions with at least 2 of those years in an architect or leadership role
• Stellar programming/coding fundamentals
• 4+ year of experience building large scale distributed systems
• 4+ years experience leading cross-organization projects

Responsibilities

• Drive technology choices, implementing services, and/or establishing architectural patterns that have a broad and lasting impact on Samsara's platform
• Identify opportunities and initiate strategic conversations to influence the direction of platform technology and engineering culture
• Architect, design, and develop software that enables Samsara to operate at scale
• Lead teams in delivering products and capabilities that contribute to Samsara’s products and revenue
• Deliver impact by solving the hardest technical problems and enabling products to reach the market quickly and successfully with high quality
• Keep a platform first approach while collaborating with our infrastructure and product teams to build products, tools and solutions
• Act as a multiplier for the team, elevating the impact and output of every team member
• Contribute to Samsara’s engineering brand by representing Samsara in external-facing forums
• 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

• Mastery in data modeling and full-stack application architecture at a massive scale
• Programming mastery in Go, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, C/C++, or other similar languages
• Expertise working on large-scale enterprise software applications
• Demonstrated ability to ship production-quality software in a dynamic environment
• Expert level knowledge of at-scale stream processing decision engines

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