Samsara is seeking to improve the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of physical operations that power the global economy by harnessing Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable insights and improve operations.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience as a software engineer building customer-facing applications, with at least 8 of those years in an architect or leadership role, and 6+ years of experience leading cross-organization projects.
- Stellar programming/coding fundamentals.
- Expertise in working on large-scale enterprise software applications.
- Technical mastery in Go, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, C/C++, or other similar languages.
- Experience in applying Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence to real-world applications.
- Entrepreneurial experience with a track record of success for early-stage products.
- Experience with distributed systems, data platforms, and cloud-based technologies.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical strategy across Fleet Safety: Define a coherent multi-year technical vision that aligns product needs with scalable architectures across video, telematics, and AI/ML workflows.
- Lead architecture and systems design for cross-cutting, ambiguous problems: Drive end-to-end definition, design quality, and delivery for the highest-impact initiatives; own one or more critical components that enable fast-paced innovation while meeting safety and reliability expectations.
- Advance AI/ML and Computer Vision in production: Translate research into robust customer-facing features—improving detection, classification, real-time feedback, and coaching workflows—with strong emphasis on system reliability, model lifecycle, and evaluation rigor.
- Scale distributed systems and data platforms: Evolve backend services, streaming pipelines, storage, and indexing for reliability, observability, security, and cost efficiency—reducing operational toil and improving performance at scale.
- Influence across teams to raise the engineering bar: Establish standards, guide difficult trade-offs, improve developer productivity, and ensure systems fit together cleanly to accelerate product delivery.
- Mentor and grow engineers: Actively coach Staff-level engineers, institutionalize best practices, and create mechanisms (documentation, automation, design reviews) that scale your impact and foster a culture of ownership, rigor, and inclusion.
- 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.
Other
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering.
- Travel requirements not specified, but may be required for collaboration and customer meetings.
- Must be able to work in the US and have the legal right to work at the company.
- Must be able to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the company and in the specified work location, if applicable.
- Full time employees receive a competitive total compensation package along with employee-led remote and flexible working, health benefits, and much, much more.
