Software Engineering Intern - London

About the role:

We are seeking early-in-career Software Engineering Interns new grads to join various engineering teams. If you want to make a positive global impact, this is the role for you!

As a Software Engineer Intern New Grad at Samsara, you will design and develop features across a broad surface area with a tangible impact on active and future customers. You’ll tackle engineering challenges ranging from architecting data structures for mass data collection to presenting data analytics in intuitive and performant ways on web and mobile. We are actively leveraging AI to make our products better for our customers and you will get the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and techniques like LLMs, RAG

Applying to this job requisition, you will be considered for one of the following engineering specializations based on your experience, interest, and business needs:  

1. Backend Infrastructure engineers design and develop the infrastructure that powers Samsara’s IoT platform, used by tens of thousands of customers globally, connecting more than 15 thousand hardware assets to improve the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of their operations. You will work on scaling our data ingestion and storage systems to support more and more connected devices and work with engineers throughout the company to make new types of data analysis possible.
2. Full-stack, Frontend engineers develop user interfaces that intuitively present the data collected from millions of devices. You will work directly with the design and product teams to identify solutions and iterate quickly based on feedback. The features you build will provide actionable insights for our customers’ operations and may involve anything from design systems to performance engineering.
3. Full-stack, Backend engineers design and develop features across a broad surface area with tangible impact on active and future customers. You will tackle engineering challenges ranging from architecting data structures for mass data collection to presenting data analytics in intuitive and performant ways on web and mobile.
4. Mobile Infrastructure engineers work on the critical infrastructure behind our React Native application. Your tools will enable feature teams to iterate quickly and empower them to write performant and maintainable code.

We use Golang for our backend, Typescript and React for our web client, GraphQL to fetch data from our backend, and React Native for our mobile app.  Direct experience with this stack is not required, but experience with similar technologies is strongly encouraged.

Eligibility
This is a hybrid position in our London office. Relocation assistance will be provided for this role. You will complete a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, Data Science, or similar. To be eligible for this role, you must be enrolled in university for the full duration of this internship and graduate in Summer/Spring 2026.

You should apply if:

• 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 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.
• 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.
• You are a team player: Working on our Samsara Engineering teams requires a mix of independent effort and collaboration. Motivated by our mission, we’re all racing toward our connected operations vision, and we intend to win—together.

An ideal candidate:

• Wants to win as a Team! Will champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s values (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.
• Has a builder mindset! We want to see that you have built or worked on production applications on your resume. We want students with multiple repositories in their GitHub demonstrating your software development journey.
• Knows their stuff! We want students with experience developing software in the following stacks. Please note that we do not expect you to have worked with all of these technologies and are prepared to train you in languages you haven’t worked with previously.
• Backend, Infrastructure: Golang, Node.js, Python (w/Django a plus) or Flask, Ruby, or Java (w/Spring Boot a plus). Experience with Docker or Kubernetes is a plus.
• Fullstack, Frontend: Typescript, JavaScript, React, Vue.js, Svelte, or Angular
• Fullstack, Backend: GraphQL, Rest, Apollo, or Relay and No SQL databases such as Mongo DB or DynamoDB.
• Mobile Infrastructure: Swift or Kotlin and React, Flutter, Xamarin, or Ionic.
• Is customer obsessed! Finds excitement in understanding our customers and what would make their day-to-day processes easier. Motivation comes from building and shipping customer experiences and seeks to iterate on new products based on customer feedback.
• 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.

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