Samsara

Staff Software Engineer - External Platform

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10 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$162k - $290k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Drive technology choices, implement services, and establish architectural patterns with broad and lasting impact on Samsara’s platform.
  • Identify platform opportunities and influence technology direction and engineering culture through strategic conversations.
  • Architect, design, and develop software that enables Samsara to operate at scale.
  • Lead teams and cross-organization projects delivering products and capabilities that contribute to Samsara’s products and revenue.
  • Solve difficult technical problems and enable products to reach market quickly with high quality.
  • Collaborate with infrastructure and product teams to build platform-first products, tools, and solutions.
  • Multiply team impact by elevating the effectiveness and output of other engineers.
  • Represent Samsara in external-facing technical forums and champion the company’s cultural principles.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8+ years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm-related solutions, including at least two years in an architect or leadership role.
  • At least 4 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems.
  • At least 4 years of experience leading cross-organization projects.
  • Strong programming and coding fundamentals.
  • Preferred: mastery of data modeling and full-stack application architecture at massive scale.
  • Preferred: programming mastery in Go, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, C, C++, or similar languages.
  • Preferred: expertise with large-scale enterprise software applications and production-quality software delivery.
  • Preferred: expert-level knowledge of at-scale stream-processing decision engines.

Benefits

  • Remote position open to candidates residing in the US, with a flexible employee-led remote model.
  • Eligible for an initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff and ongoing performance-based refresh opportunities.
  • Performance-based bonus or variable pay and equity eligibility under the company’s compensation program.
  • Professional development stipend.
  • Comprehensive health and parental leave plans.
  • Company offices are available for employees who prefer in-person work; a full-day in-person final interview is held at the San Francisco office.
Samsara

About Samsara

1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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