11 days ago
Remote, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate reliable cloud platforms across compute, networking, storage, stateful systems, or infrastructure control planes.
- Improve scalability, capacity management, failure isolation, recovery, and cost efficiency for critical production infrastructure.
- Build infrastructure-as-code workflows and reusable automation for self-service provisioning, testing, progressive rollout, reconciliation, rollback, and drift prevention.
- Identify shared failure modes and implement safeguards to prevent localized failures from escalating into broad customer impact.
- Contribute to multi-account, multi-region, and isolated AWS architectures, including GovCloud environments.
- Participate in operational ownership and incident response, using incidents and near misses to drive architectural improvements.
- Mentor engineers, improve infrastructure design and operational judgment, and establish reusable organizational patterns.
- Communicate architecture, trade-offs, risks, and migration plans to technical and organizational stakeholders.
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; AWS experience is 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 platforms, internal infrastructure platforms, control planes, self-service developer experiences, multi-account or multi-region cloud architectures, disaster recovery, and major infrastructure migrations.
Benefits
- Flexible, employee-led remote model with offices available for in-person work and location requirements stated when applicable.
- Professional development stipend.
- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans.
- Compensation includes base salary, performance-based bonus or variable pay, and equity for eligible roles.
- Employment offers are contingent on the ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the company and in the specified work location, if applicable.
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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.