engineering
Posted Jun 11Staff Software Engineer - Platform
at Samsara
Hybrid
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.
Requirements
- Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, which is a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations.
- You are a life-long learner: We have ambitious goals. Every Samsarian has a growth mindset as we work with a wide range of technologies, challenges, and customers that push us to learn on the go.
- 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 leading cross-organization projects
- 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
- Demonstrated ability to ship production-quality software in a dynamic environment
- Expert level knowledge of at-scale stream processing decision engines
- All offers of employment are contingent upon an individual’s ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the company and in the specified work location, if applicable.
Experience
- experience building large scale distributed systems 4+ years
Benefits
- Motivated by our mission, we’re all racing toward our connected operations vision, and we intend to win—together.
- The range of annual base salary for full-time employees for this position is below.
- Please note that base pay offered may vary depending on factors including your city of residence, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
- This role is also eligible for an initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff, and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance, subject to plan terms and conditions.
- Annual Base Salary $162,400 — $290,000 USD Total Rewards
- Our compensation program delivers above-market total compensation through a combination of base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity (for eligible roles) in a high-growth public company.
- We meaningfully differentiate pay for our top performers, who have the opportunity to earn above-market compensation that can outpace the broader market over time.
- Beyond compensation, we provide the foundations that enable long-term success: a flexible, employee-led remote model, a professional development stipend, comprehensive health and parental leave plans, and more.
Contact
- Please email accessibleinterviewing@samsara.com or click here if you require any reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process.
- Official communication about your application will only come from emails ending in @samsara.com, @us-greenhouse-mail.io or @mail3.guide.co.
Additional details
- At Samsara, we are helping improve the safety, efficiency and sustainability of the physical operations that power our global economy.
- Representing more than 40% of global GDP, these industries are the infrastructure of our planet, including agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing — and we are excited to help digitally transform their operations at scale.
- Working at Samsara means you’ll help define the future of physical operations and be on a team that’s shaping an exciting array of product solutions, including Video-Based Safety, Vehicle Telematics, Apps and Driver Workflows, and Equipment Monitoring.
- As part of a recently public company, you’ll have the autonomy and support to make an impact as we build for the long term. About the role:
- We are the Platform team responsible for building foundational systems that drive the Samsara software products.
- Examples include Alerts, Workflows, Notifications, Reports, User Management, Roles and Permissions, Billing and Invoice etc. We are looking for a Staff Engineer to help us spearhead the technical direction for the team.
- As a Staff Engineer at Samsara, you will be a technical leader that brings fresh ideas and expertise to guide the team’s technical design and architecture and enable increasingly complex features and customer use cases.
- You will work on specific projects critical to Samsara’s needs alongside other highly-skilled Samsara engineers and push Samsara’s technical capabilities forward.
- Our final interview stage is a full-day, in-person onsite at our SF office.
- This is an exciting opportunity to collaborate face-to-face with our senior technical leaders and dive deep into the hard problems we are solving.