Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Samsara is a pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, helping organizations improve their operations through IoT data. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Platform team, responsible for building foundational systems that drive Samsara's software products, enhancing technical design and architecture.
Responsibilities
- Drive technology choices, implementing services, and/or establishing architectural patterns that have a broad and lasting impact on Samsara's platform
- Identify opportunities and initiate strategic conversations to influence the direction of platform technology and engineering culture
- Architect, design, and develop software that enables Samsara to operate at scale
- Lead teams in delivering products and capabilities that contribute to Samsara’s products and revenue
- Deliver impact by solving the hardest technical problems and enabling products to reach the market quickly and successfully with high quality
- Keep a platform first approach while collaborating with our infrastructure and product teams to build products, tools and solutions
- Act as a multiplier for the team, elevating the impact and output of every team member
- Contribute to Samsara’s engineering brand by representing Samsara in external-facing forums
- 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
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions with at least 2 of those years in an architect or leadership role
- Stellar programming/coding fundamentals
- 4+ year of experience building large scale distributed systems
- 4+ years experience leading cross-organization projects
- Mastery in data modeling and full-stack application architecture at a massive scale
- Programming mastery in Go, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, C/C++, or other similar languages
- Expertise working on large-scale enterprise software applications
- Demonstrated ability to ship production-quality software in a dynamic environment
- Expert level knowledge of at-scale stream processing decision engines
Benefits
- Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff, and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance, subject to plan terms and conditions
- Performance-based bonus/variable pay
- Equity (for eligible roles) in a high-growth public company
- Flexible, employee-led remote model
- Professional development stipend
- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
- Flexible working model that caters to the diverse needs of our teams
- Offices are open for those who prefer to work in-person and we also support remote work where it aligns with our operational requirements
- Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process
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