Samsara is looking to solve problems that enable their product for global customers by architecting and designing critical parts of the Automation Platform, setting strategy around Event Architecture and re-usable RPCs, and ensuring the product can scale to production demands while maintaining flexibility.
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.
- Proficiency in building scalable and maintainable front-end applications using TypeScript and React, or similar component-based JavaScript frameworks.
- Experience designing and architecting large, high-scale systems.
- Experience with a public cloud such as AWS.
- Experience leveraging LLMs or similar for day-to-day coding, eg: Cursor, Claude Code.
- Experience with workflow engines, state machines, or orchestration platforms (e.g. Temporal, Step Functions, Airflow).
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
- This is a remote role open to candidates residing in the United States.
- A focus on and desire to mentor fellow engineers.
- An ability to estimate, communicate, and deliver upon project milestones with your team.
- 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.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, and other characteristics protected by law.
