7 days ago
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for major infrastructure systems and lead complex initiatives spanning multiple teams.
- Design, build, and operate reliable cloud platforms across compute, networking, storage, stateful systems, and infrastructure control planes.
- Improve scalability, capacity management, failure isolation, recovery, and cost efficiency of production infrastructure.
- Build reusable infrastructure-as-code workflows and automation for provisioning, testing, rollout, reconciliation, rollback, and drift prevention.
- Develop safeguards against shared failure modes and reduce the risk of broad customer impact.
- Contribute to multi-account, multi-region, and isolated AWS architectures, including GovCloud environments.
- Participate in operational ownership and incident response and use incidents to drive architectural improvements.
- Mentor engineers, communicate architecture and trade-offs, and establish organization-wide infrastructure patterns.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of experience designing and building software, infrastructure, or distributed systems, including operating critical systems in production.
- Deep expertise in compute and workload orchestration, networking, storage and stateful systems, or cloud infrastructure control planes.
- Strong software-engineering fundamentals in Go, Python, Java, or a similar language.
- Hands-on experience designing and operating infrastructure on a major public cloud platform, with AWS preferred.
- Experience using infrastructure as code such as Terraform to manage production infrastructure safely.
- Strong understanding of capacity management, failure domains, observability, rollout safety, and production recovery.
- Ability to lead complex technical initiatives across teams and ambiguous problem spaces.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred experience includes ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, Kafka, OpenSearch, managed databases, caching, large-scale storage, internal infrastructure platforms, multi-region architectures, disaster recovery, infrastructure migrations, and developer self-service.
Benefits
- Remote position open to candidates residing in the US.
- Flexible employee-led remote model with offices available for in-person work where applicable.
- Professional development stipend, comprehensive health plans, parental leave, performance-based bonus or variable pay, and equity eligibility.
- Annual base salary range of $142,800—$184,800 CAD, plus potential RSU grants and refresh opportunities.
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About Samsara
Samsara (NYSE: IOT) builds with the operators who keep the world moving. Working alongside the drivers, mechanics, dispatchers, and crews behind the world's most complex operations, Samsara turns what they know into technology that makes their work safer and more efficient. Tens of thousands of organizations rely on Samsara across transportation, construction, logistics, manufacturing, field services, government, and more. Built with operators, for operators.