7 days ago
Base Salary
$155k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for major infrastructure systems and lead ambiguous initiatives across multiple teams.
- Design, build, and operate cloud platforms covering compute, networking, storage, stateful systems, and infrastructure control planes.
- Improve scalability, capacity management, failure isolation, recovery, cost efficiency, and production resilience.
- Build standardized infrastructure-as-code workflows and reusable automation for provisioning, testing, rollout, reconciliation, rollback, and drift prevention.
- Design safeguards against shared failure modes and broad customer impact across multi-account and multi-region AWS environments, including GovCloud.
- Participate in operational ownership and incident response, using incidents and near misses to improve system architecture.
- Mentor engineers, communicate architectural trade-offs and migration plans, and establish organization-wide infrastructure practices.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience designing and building software, infrastructure, or distributed systems, including operating critical production systems.
- Deep expertise in at least one infrastructure domain: 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, with AWS 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, internal infrastructure platforms, multi-region architectures, disaster recovery, major migrations, and measurable infrastructure efficiency improvements.
Benefits
- Remote position open to candidates residing in the United States.
- Flexible, employee-led remote work model with offices available for employees who prefer working in person.
- Professional development stipend.
- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans.
- Additional total-rewards and performance-based benefits are available under company plans.
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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.