2 months ago
Base Salary
$162k - $290k/yr
Responsibilities
- Shape the technical direction of the Maps team and build foundational geospatial systems used across Samsara products.
- Develop data ingestion and processing pipelines, map-data models, spatial services, routing and map-matching foundations, and reusable APIs.
- Scale storage, querying, and computation for real-time location-dependent features.
- Consolidate team-specific geospatial solutions into scalable platform-wide offerings.
- Build agentic self-service solutions for customers to access and present map data.
- Raise engineering quality through code reviews, design discussions, mentorship, and technical leadership.
- Lead cross-team technical initiatives, advise engineering leadership on tradeoffs, and represent Samsara in the mapping and geospatial community.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of software development experience, including at least 2 years in an architect or technical leadership role.
- At least 4 years of experience working on large-scale distributed systems.
- At least 4 years leading technical projects across multiple teams.
- Strong programming and software design fundamentals.
- Experience with GIS technologies and spatial analysis, including PostGIS, spatial SQL, GeoPandas/Shapely, QGIS, and geospatial data validation is preferred.
- Familiarity with GeoParquet, OpenStreetMap, OSM PBF, and open mapping ecosystems, including experience ingesting, transforming, validating, or serving these datasets, is preferred.
- Ability to work through ambiguity and align teams without formal authority is preferred.
Benefits
- Remote role open to candidates based in the United States.
- Flexible employee-led remote model with offices available for employees who prefer in-person work.
- Professional development stipend, comprehensive health plans, parental leave, performance-based bonus or variable pay, and equity eligibility.
- Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance, subject to plan terms.
About Samsara
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.