Senior Data Platform Engineer

September 21

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Samsara

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Enterprise • Transport • Security

Samsara is a technology company that provides a comprehensive operations platform aimed at improving the efficiency, safety, and sustainability of organizations. Their solutions include video-based safety, vehicle telematics, equipment monitoring, workforce applications, and site visibility. Samsara serves a wide range of industries, including transportation, logistics, construction, and government. The platform connects people, systems, and data, enabling organizations to make faster, data-informed decisions. Samsara's Connected Operations technology helps complex organizations operate more effectively by offering real-time GPS, proactive alerts, compliance training, and asset tracking.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2015

🏢 Enterprise

🚗 Transport

🔐 Security

💰 Seed Round on 2014-08

📋 Description

• Administer and monitor Databricks workspaces and underlying AWS Infra: develop platform admin tools and capabilities to administer, monitor, track and troubleshoot clusters, catalogs, users, groups, databases, storage and security • Act as the primary Databricks SME, assisting and guiding teams on platform features and best practices • Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and data scientists to operationalize and optimize workflows and data pipelines • Oversee data-engineering dev ecosystem, including dev-tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring frameworks • Own implementation and management of IaaC (Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD automation for Databricks and AWS resources • Ensure security, high availability, disaster recovery, and compliance across data services • Incorporate DevOps best practices including automated testing, deployment, observability, and monitoring • Engage directly with internal cross-functional stakeholders to understand their data needs and design scalable solutions • Collaborate with engineers, managers, and vendor representatives to evaluate new features and solutions; lead rapid prototyping and proofs-of-concept for performance, cost, security, scalability, observability • Provide mentorship, technical guidance, training, and knowledge-sharing across teams

🎯 Requirements

• This role is open to candidates residing in Canada • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Sciences, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline • 10+ years experience in a Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, DevOps/DataOps or similar technical role, including at least 2+ years experience in data infrastructure or platform focused role • Experience building, delivering, and administering large-scale production-grade data platforms and services to data engineering, business analyst and data-science teams • Solid knowledge of Databricks features and administration, including Unity Catalog, cluster management, security, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and performance optimization • Experience and familiarity with AWS services and Cloud Infrastructure provisioning, management, monitoring, and security (e.g., S3, IAM, RDS, Lambda, API-Gateway, VPC, EC2, ECS/EKS) • Strong knowledge of SQL and Python, and hands-on data-engineering experience in designing and developing data pipelines and ETL routines from a variety of sources (SaaS corporate systems, APIs, RDBMS) • Skilled with change-data capture, incremental and batch loading techniques • Experience troubleshooting underlying issues and translating them into technical solutions • Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills • (Ideal) Experience delivering and managing Databricks and AWS Infra for 100s of users • (Ideal) Experience as a technical lead • (Ideal) Knowledge of DevOps tools and practices: GitHub/GitLab, CI/CD systems, Terraform, monitoring/logging tools (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch) • (Ideal) Experience implementing robust data governance and security measures to ensure data integrity and compliance

🏖️ Benefits

• Full time employees receive a competitive total compensation package • Base salary + bonus/variable + restricted stock unit awards (RSUs) for eligible roles • New hire RSU award may be awarded at the time of hire, and additional RSU refresh grants may be awarded annually • Employee-led remote and flexible working • Flexible working model; offices open for in-person and remote work supported • Health benefits • Inclusive work environment and equal opportunity • Accommodations available for qualified persons with disabilities during the recruiting process