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 like Alerts, Workflows, and User Management. You will be a technical leader, guiding the team's design and architecture to enable increasingly complex features. This remote position, open to US-based candidates, offers the chance to impact global industries by building scalable software solutions for millions of IoT devices. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, solve challenging technical problems, and contribute to Samsara's engineering brand. The role requires a strong background in software design, distributed systems, and leadership, with a focus on delivering high-quality products quickly. Samsara offers a competitive compensation package and benefits.

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

• Health benefits
• Remote and flexible working