8 hours ago
Base Salary
$162k - $290k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction of the Maps teams and partner with engineering leadership on major technical investments and tradeoffs.
- Build geospatial systems, integrations, data ingestion and processing pipelines, map-serving systems, and APIs supporting foundational features across Samsara products.
- Scale storage, querying, and computation for real-time location-dependent features.
- Consolidate team-specific geospatial solutions into scalable platform-wide offerings.
- Build agentic solutions that let customers self-serve the data they want to see.
- Raise the technical bar through code reviews, design discussions, mentorship, external talks, open source, and community engagement.
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.
- Strong programming and software design fundamentals.
- 4+ years working on large-scale distributed systems.
- 4+ years leading technical projects across multiple teams.
- Preferred experience with GIS, spatial analysis, PostGIS, spatial SQL, GeoPandas, Shapely, QGIS, and geospatial data validation.
- Preferred familiarity with GeoParquet, OpenStreetMap, OSM PBF, and ingesting, transforming, validating, or serving geospatial datasets.
Benefits
- Remote role open to candidates based in the US.
- Annual base salary range of $162,400–$290,000 USD, plus eligibility for an initial RSU grant and ongoing refresh opportunities.
- Performance-based bonus or variable pay and equity may be available for eligible roles.
- Flexible employee-led remote work model with offices available for those who prefer in-person work.
- Professional development stipend, comprehensive health plans, parental leave, and other total rewards.
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.