2 months 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 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.