Samsara

Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform

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5 months ago
Remote, CanadaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate high-scale ingestion and replication systems moving data from production stores, internal APIs, and event-driven systems into the data lakehouse.
  • Build and maintain reliable, scalable data-platform infrastructure handling petabytes of data for analytics, AI, product, and operational use cases.
  • Improve the reliability, observability, scalability, security, and developer experience of Spark- and Databricks-based processing infrastructure.
  • Develop internal libraries, APIs, frameworks, and tooling in Go, Python, and other production languages.
  • Work with Delta Lake on S3, data catalogs, metadata services, orchestration systems, and platform automation.
  • Collaborate with infrastructure, product engineering, data science, analytics, security, and data engineering teams.
  • Help shape the long-term data infrastructure roadmap, including AI, privacy, security, global scale, and customer-facing data products.
  • Champion Samsara’s cultural principles while supporting the company’s global growth.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience in production environments.
  • At least 4 years of experience building or maintaining large-scale production data infrastructure, data platforms, distributed systems, or data lake systems.
  • Strong experience with Apache Spark or similar distributed data processing systems.
  • Production infrastructure experience in AWS, including services such as S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, or Lambda.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating reliable systems with ownership of scalability, observability, security, and operational excellence.
  • Proficiency in at least one production programming language such as Go, Python, Scala, or Java.
  • Ability to collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, analysts, security teams, and product stakeholders.
  • Preferred experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, Iceberg, Hudi, data replication, ingestion systems, Terraform, CloudFormation, data catalogs, metadata systems, orchestration, streaming, containers, internal platforms, or developer tooling.

Benefits

  • Remote position for candidates residing in Canada; relocation assistance is not provided.
  • Flexible, employee-led remote model with offices available for those who prefer in-person work.
  • Professional development stipend.
  • Comprehensive health and parental leave plans.
  • Eligible for RSU grants and performance-based bonus or variable pay, subject to plan terms.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBApache AirflowApache SparkDatabricksDockerGoJavaKubernetesPythonScalaTerraform

Categories

BackendData EngineeringDevOps
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About Samsara

5,001-10,000 employees

Samsara builds a Connected Operations Cloud that uses IoT hardware and software to help fleets and other physical-operations organizations monitor vehicles, assets, and worksites. Its platform spans video-based driver safety, vehicle telematics, equipment monitoring, and mobile workflows, sold as subscriptions with accompanying devices. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, Samsara is a public company on the NYSE (ticker: IOT) serving transportation, construction, manufacturing, field services, and government.

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