Staff Software Engineer - Core Infrastructure

About the role:

Samsara is seeking an experienced Staff software engineer focusing on infrastructure to join our Infrastructure team. The Infrastructure team's goal is to continually improve the reliability, performance, observability, and efficiency of the infrastructure and microservices that power Samsara’s cloud platform. We create the foundations that our product teams build upon to rapidly experiment and iterate on new products and features.

You’ll be a thought leader on a team that maintains a product we provide to the rest of engineering, like storage, container orchestration, and ingestion. You’ll make decisions with a significant impact on Samsara. There is a lot of work to do to make Samsara engineers’ work easier and our platform even more reliable than it is today, and we’d love for you to be part of it. We’re close to the people using our systems, so we constantly get feedback that we can use to make them better.

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.

Click here to learn about what we value at Samsara.

In this role, you will: 

• Architect, design and develop software and tools for managing hundreds of microservices and databases.
• Continuously improve our observability stack and collaborate with product teams to identify opportunities to improve efficiency and optimize performance.
• Design and build infrastructure to support the development of highly available real-time streaming of data from Samsara’s connected devices and to support the connectivity of millions of edge devices colocated with customer equipment.
• Act as a multiplier for the team, elevating the impact and output of every team member.
• Build a great customer experience for people using your infrastructure.
• Influence the vision and roadmap for infrastructure to support our rapid growth.
• 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.
• Contribute to Samsara’s engineering brand by representing Samsara in external-facing forums.

Minimum requirements for the role:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience on infrastructure-focused teams.
• Mastery of programming/coding practices.
• Expertise working with web services at massive scale deployed on Cloud providers such as AWS or Azure.

An ideal candidate also has:

• Has 12+ years of relevant industry experience in software development.
• Enjoys leading and mentoring engineers to think about systems - their life cycles, edge cases, and failure modes.
• Enjoys fostering collaboration among engineers with different focuses (frontend, mobile, firmware, vision, ML).
• Is an expert in writing high quality, performant and maintainable code in a modern programming language.
• Knows their way around a UNIX shell and a Linux operating system.