5 hours 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 (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.