Staff Software Engineer

Who we are

Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, which helps to digitize the world of physical operations, providing visibility and empowering entire sectors of our economy to become more safe, efficient, and sustainable. Founded in San Francisco in 2015, we now employ more than 2,000 people globally and collect more than 40 billion minutes of video footage and 5 trillion data points annually.

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, equipment monitoring, and site visibility. As part of a newly public company, you’ll have the autonomy and support to make an impact as we build for the long term. 

Recent awards we’ve won include: 

Best Place to Work by Built In 2022

Deloitte Fast 500 Companies

IoT Analytics Company of the Year in 2022’s IoT Breakthrough Winners

Every year, we partner with our customers to deliver outcomes like conserving millions of gallons of fuel, saving millions of dollars, and creating positive environmental change. As more customers connect to our platform, our data grows, our AI models get smarter, and our opportunities expand.

About the role:

Samsara is seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to join our Infrastructure Platform team. The Infrastructure Platform team's goal is to accelerate product velocity by increasing developer productivity, simplifying the problems of scale, and providing built-in resiliency & security. We achieve this by providing easy-to-use, self-service, secure by default, efficient, and reliable developer and operator capabilities via infrastructure, automation, tooling, & education. 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 catalog of products we provide to the rest of engineering, like storage, compute, orchestration, and observability. 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.

In this role, you will: 

• Lead organization-wide projects and develop tools that improve how we deploy, orchestrate, scale, and monitor hundreds of microservices and databases.
• Architect and coordinate changes to essential production systems. e.g. the highly available real-time streaming of data from millions of connected devices.
• Identify and guide prioritization of opportunities for improvement to our infrastructure
• Contribute ideas and feedback that help teams improve processes and architecture.
• Increase visibility and knowledge of operational best practices to raise the bar across the company.
• Act as a multiplier for the team, elevating the impact and output of every team member
• Influence the vision and roadmap for infrastructure to support our rapid growth.
• Represent Samsara in external-facing forums: writing on our engineering blog (

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