Senior Staff Software Engineer

October 6

Apply Now

Receive Emails with Similar Jobs

Samsara

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

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

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering. • 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. • Entrepreneurial experience with a track record of success for early-stage products. • Stellar programming/coding fundamentals. • Expertise in working on large-scale enterprise software applications.

🏖️ Benefits

• Full time employees receive a competitive total compensation package along with employee-led remote and flexible working, health benefits, and much, much more.