Samsara
About this role
Samsara, listed on the NYSE as IOT, sells the connected operations platform that agriculture, construction, field services, transportation and manufacturing companies use to turn IoT data into operational decisions, with more than 2.3 million devices deployed. This role sits in the Platform and Infrastructure organisation, which builds the foundational systems the products run on: reporting, automations and enterprise capabilities, plus core infrastructure such as container orchestration, data storage, real time data ingestion and GraphQL execution. As a staff engineer you would help set technical direction for the organisation, guide design and architecture, and enable increasingly complex features and customer use cases. Two details are worth knowing before applying. The role is explicitly hybrid at three days a week in the office, with the address published. And Samsara notes engineers here get unusual closeness to end users, including participating in customer interviews.
Who this is for
What the posting requires as minimum:
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 12+ years of experience in software design, development and algorithm related solutions, including time in an architect or leadership role.
- Stellar programming and coding fundamentals.
- 4+ years of experience building large scale distributed systems.
- 4+ years of experience leading cross organisation projects.
- Expertise working with web services at massive scale deployed on cloud providers such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
What an ideal candidate also has, per the posting:
- 15+ years of relevant industry experience in software development.
- Enjoyment of leading and mentoring other engineers.
What the work actually looks like:
- Drive technology choices, implement services and establish architectural patterns with broad and lasting impact on Samsara's platform.
- Identify opportunities and initiate strategic conversations that influence the direction of platform technology and engineering culture.
- Architect, design and develop software that enables Samsara to operate at scale.
- Lead teams delivering products and capabilities that contribute to Samsara's products and revenue.
- Solve the hardest technical problems and enable products to reach market quickly with high quality.
- Keep a platform first approach while collaborating with infrastructure and product teams.
The systems in scope, as named: reporting, automations and enterprise capabilities, plus foundational infrastructure including container orchestration, data storage, real time data ingestion and GraphQL execution.
Location and working pattern: this one is stated clearly, which is unusual and useful. The role is hybrid at 3 days per week in the office, at Prestige Tech Park, Kadubeesanahalli, Bengaluru 560103.
What Samsara says about the environment: engineers have a rare closeness to the end user, with the opportunity to join customer interviews, work with customer success and product managers, and use metrics to check the work is producing better customer outcomes.
Honest fit guidance: 12 years with an architect or leadership component is the real bar, and the ideal candidate note pushes it toward 15. This is a technical leadership seat, so the cross organisation project experience matters as much as the coding depth.
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 12+ years of experience in software design, development and algorithm related solutions, including time in an architect or leadership role.
- Stellar programming and coding fundamentals.
- 4+ years of experience building large scale distributed systems.
- 4+ years of experience leading cross organisation projects.
- Expertise working with web services at massive scale deployed on cloud providers such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
What an ideal candidate also has, per the posting:
- 15+ years of relevant industry experience in software development.
- Enjoyment of leading and mentoring other engineers.
What the work actually looks like:
- Drive technology choices, implement services and establish architectural patterns with broad and lasting impact on Samsara's platform.
- Identify opportunities and initiate strategic conversations that influence the direction of platform technology and engineering culture.
- Architect, design and develop software that enables Samsara to operate at scale.
- Lead teams delivering products and capabilities that contribute to Samsara's products and revenue.
- Solve the hardest technical problems and enable products to reach market quickly with high quality.
- Keep a platform first approach while collaborating with infrastructure and product teams.
The systems in scope, as named: reporting, automations and enterprise capabilities, plus foundational infrastructure including container orchestration, data storage, real time data ingestion and GraphQL execution.
Location and working pattern: this one is stated clearly, which is unusual and useful. The role is hybrid at 3 days per week in the office, at Prestige Tech Park, Kadubeesanahalli, Bengaluru 560103.
What Samsara says about the environment: engineers have a rare closeness to the end user, with the opportunity to join customer interviews, work with customer success and product managers, and use metrics to check the work is producing better customer outcomes.
Honest fit guidance: 12 years with an architect or leadership component is the real bar, and the ideal candidate note pushes it toward 15. This is a technical leadership seat, so the cross organisation project experience matters as much as the coding depth.
Apply on company site
Opens www.samsara.com, the employer's own application page. Applying is always free.