Samsara

Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform

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3 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$131k - $220k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate high-scale ingestion and replication systems from production data stores and event-driven systems into the data lakehouse.
  • Build and maintain scalable data platform infrastructure capable of handling petabytes of data across analytics, AI, product, and operational use cases.
  • Improve the reliability, observability, scalability, security, and developer experience of the Spark and Databricks data processing platform.
  • Develop internal libraries, APIs, frameworks, and tooling in Go and Python to help teams move, process, discover, and access data safely.
  • Work on Delta Lake on S3, data catalogs, metadata services, orchestration systems, and platform automation.
  • Collaborate with infrastructure, product engineering, data science, analytics, security, and data engineering teams.
  • Help shape the long-term data infrastructure roadmap for AI, privacy, security, global scale, and customer-facing data products.
  • Champion Samsara’s cultural principles as the company scales globally.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience in production environments.
  • At least 4 years of experience building or maintaining large-scale production data infrastructure, data platforms, distributed systems, or data lake systems.
  • Strong experience with Apache Spark or similar distributed data processing systems.
  • Production infrastructure experience in AWS, including services such as S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, or Lambda.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating reliable systems with ownership of scalability, observability, security, and operational excellence.
  • Proficiency in at least one production programming language such as Go, Python, Scala, or Java.
  • Ability to collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, analysts, security teams, and product stakeholders.
  • Preferred experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, Iceberg, Hudi, or similar lakehouse technologies.
  • Preferred experience building data replication or ingestion systems from OLTP data stores into a data lake or lakehouse.
  • Preferred experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, data catalogs, metadata systems, data discovery tools, orchestration systems, streaming data, event-driven architectures, containers, or internal developer platforms.

Benefits

  • Remote position for candidates residing in the United States; relocation assistance is not provided.
  • Flexible, employee-led remote work model with offices available for employees who prefer in-person work.
  • Professional development stipend.
  • Comprehensive health and parental leave plans.
  • Eligible roles may receive equity and performance-based rewards, subject to plan terms.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBApache AirflowApache SparkDatabricksDockerGoJavaKubernetesPythonScalaTerraform

Categories

BackendData EngineeringDevOps
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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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