Samsara is looking to improve its Automation Platform by architecting and designing critical and forward-facing parts of the platform, setting strategy around Event Architecture and re-usable RPCs, and ensuring the product can scale to production demands while maintaining flexibility for new requirements.
Requirements
- 8+ years of industry experience building and operating production software systems.
- Proficiency in at least one backend language (Go, Java, C-Sharp, or equivalent). Node is acceptable; Python/Ruby not preferred due to scale concerns.
- Experience designing and architecting large, high-scale systems.
- Experience with a public cloud such as AWS.
- Proficiency in building scalable and maintainable front-end applications using TypeScript and React, or similar component-based JavaScript frameworks.
- Experience with workflow engines, state machines, or orchestration platforms (e.g. Temporal, Step Functions, Airflow).
- Experience leveraging LLMs or similar for day-to-day coding, eg: Cursor, Claude Code.
Responsibilities
- Work with product managers, designers, firmware, and infra engineers to architect, build, test, and deliver full-stack features across front-end, back-end, and mobile.
- Be responsible for maintaining the production systems that your team owns, and provide operational support.
- Solve problems that enable our product for our global customers.
- Partner with other teams to take in requirements for prioritization and evangelize the platform we're building.
- Architect and design some of the most critical and forward-facing parts of the Automation Platform.
- Help to set Samsara's strategy around Event Architecture and re-usable RPCs.
- Help to ensure our product can scale to production demands while maintaining flexibility in our system for new requirements.
Other
- A focus on and desire to mentor fellow engineers.
- An ability to estimate, communicate, and deliver upon project milestones with your team.
- Help build the culture of the team and make it an enjoyable place to work.
- 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.
- This role is open to candidates residing in the US.
