Samsara is looking to improve the frontend developer experience by building and maintaining the infrastructure, tools, and workflows that enable hundreds of engineers to build, test, and ship high-quality software quickly and reliably. The goal is to eliminate friction in the development lifecycle, drive adoption of best practices, and architect scalable solutions for shared problems.
Requirements
- Strong knowledge of web architecture patterns with a focus on scalability and maintainability.
- Deep experience with modern JavaScript frameworks, particularly React, and strong proficiency in TypeScript.
- Understanding of functional and component-based architecture, state management (e.g., Redux), and performance optimizations.
- Strong knowledge of CSS, including component libraries (e.g., Material UI) to deliver consistent and scalable design systems.
- Familiarity in using GraphQL for efficient data fetching and API design, with a working knowledge of integrating GraphQL in web environments.
- Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and monitoring tools to ensure high-quality releases.
- Experience with best practices around testing, monitoring, and SLAs to ensure high product quality in large-scale distributed web services.
Responsibilities
- Lead high-impact technical projects that improve frontend developer productivity, such as build performance, test infrastructure, or CI pipelines.
- Collaborate with engineers across the company to scale shared tooling, enforce consistency, and drive adoption of platform improvements.
- Define the long-term vision and roadmap for frontend in partnership with engineering leadership.
- Mentor engineers and influence technical standards, patterns, and best practices across the frontend org.
- Set a high-standard for the reliability of your components
- Hire, develop and lead an inclusive, engaged, and high performing team.
Other
- This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US.
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.
- Proven ability to build and scale diverse engineering teams, and a track record of delivering successful, large-scale web applications in a fast-paced, agile environment.
- Excellent interpersonal and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively.
- A customer-focused mindset and good product sense.
