Samsara is looking to build maps infrastructure for commercial operations across large fleets of vehicles to enable efficient route planning, safe transportation, and compliance. The goal is to process trillions of data points relevant to mapping and traffic for commercial navigation, ultimately enhancing their telematics platform with smarter routing solutions.
Requirements
- Fullstack or backend development experience
- Strong programming/coding fundamentals
- Experience designing and architecting large, high-scale systems.
- Proven experience shaping and improving mapping, routing or navigation products
- A track record of thriving in 0→1 teams and scaling them through the post–startup phase
Responsibilities
- Design and implement cutting-edge infrastructure for creating layered map data framework, generating map tiles to be used for map matching, geocoding/reverse geocoding, routing and route optimization.
- Design and build maps infrastructure, editor and pipelines.
- Own the design and implementation of frontend and backend services that effortlessly scale no matter size of the fleet
- Partner with the engineering manager and advocate for technical excellence on the team
- Navigate tradeoffs between moving fast and building for the long term using customer impact as the north star
- Act as a simplifier that ensures our solutions are built to serve our diverse customer base
- Communicate your work to not just engineering audiences but also our internal product partners to maintain a tight feedback loop
Other
- This is a remote position open to candidates based in the US and Canada.
- Relocation assistance will not be provided for this role.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, with a demonstrated ability to manage technical discussions.
- Demonstrated ability executing in ambiguous environments and delivering customer value
- A passion for mentoring and helping junior engineers grow
- The ability and willingness to engage directly with customers when needed
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Work backwards from winning, 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
