engineering
Posted Jun 11Senior Software Engineer II, Developer Experience / Operational Excellence
at Samsara
United KingdomHybrid
Responsibilities
- Design and build automated reliability and self-healing systems that protect production at scale, including automated rollbacks, deploy safeguards, and fault mitigation, and deliver them as platform tooling that engineering teams across the company adopt for their own services
- Own and improve incident management tooling and on-call health.
- Reduce alert noise, surface actionable signals, and empower engineering teams to operate their services confidently with minimal operational burden
- Develop and evolve our observability infrastructure, including monitoring, alerting, SLOs, and performance regression detection, to give teams real-time, actionable visibility into system health and latency
- Drive incident prevention by identifying systemic patterns and ruthlessly eliminating operational toil. You have deep empathy for on-call engineers and a bias toward making their lives better
- Define and champion operational excellence best practices across engineering through guardrails, scorecards, and standards that help teams run their services reliably by default
- 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
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.
- DevEx is responsible for the engineering environment that a globally distributed engineering org relies on every day, from build and deploy systems to development tooling and AI-assisted workflows that help teams move quickly and confidently.
- We're also investing in AI-driven operational tooling and partnering directly with product engineering teams to strengthen their operational posture.
- 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.
- Contribute to AI-driven operational tooling that goes beyond triage, building toward autonomous remediation where AI detects issues, takes corrective action, and self-recovers with minimal human involvement
- experience designing and building products in a software engineering team
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience 3+ years of
- experience on infrastructure and/or platform engineering focused teams
- experience working on large-scale enterprise software applications •
- Experience in Developer
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or the like) •
- Experience in implementing AI-driven automation across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to reduce developer friction, automate repetitive technical tasks, and accelerate time-to-delivery.
- Routinely applies AI tools across your workflow
- Familiarity with Experienced at writing high quality code (Go, Python or equivalent) focused on infrastructure, deployment and operations challenges •
- B.S. in Computer Science or related technical discipline
- Experience with incident management tooling (I ncident.io PagerDuty or equivalent)
- 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
- Minimum requirements for the role: 8+ years of
Benefits
- Motivated by our mission, we’re all racing toward our connected operations vision, and we intend to win—together.
- 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:
- Within DevEx, the Operational Excellence (OPX) team is the group that keeps production healthy at scale.
- We provide engineering teams the platform capabilities, observability tooling, automated safeguards, incident management tooling, and safe feature release systems they need to deliver highly available systems, ship features with confidence, and investigate and mitigate incidents faster.
- OPX is focused on raising the bar for system stability, resilience, and reliability across Samsara -- building automated safeguards that protect production, ensuring engineers get the right signals at the right time, and giving teams the visibility they need to stay in control of their services.
- You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software, firmware, and hardware you build will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
- You want to build for scale: With over 2.3 million IoT devices deployed to our global customers, you will work on a range of new and mature technologies driving scalable innovation for customers across industries driving the world's physical operations.
- You believe customers are more than a number: Samsara engineers enjoy a rare closeness to the end user and you will have the opportunity to participate in customer interviews, collaborate with customer success and product managers, and use metrics to ensure our work is translating into better customer outcomes.