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 infrastructure; develop platform admin tools and capabilities to administer, monitor, track and troubleshoot platform resources (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 development ecosystem, including dev-tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring frameworks • Own implementation and management of Infrastructure-as-Code (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 with internal cross-functional stakeholders to understand data needs and design scalable solutions • Collaborate with engineers, managers, and vendor representatives to evaluate new features and solutions; lead rapid prototyping and proof-of-concepts evaluating performance, cost, security, scalability, and observability • Provide mentorship, technical guidance, training, and knowledge-sharing to junior team members and across teams

🎯 Requirements

• 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 • 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 designing and developing data pipelines and ETL routines • Skilled with change-data capture, incremental and batch loading techniques • Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills • Candidates must reside in the United States (role open to US residents except Alaska, Austin Metro, Boulder Metro, California, Chicago Metro, Connecticut, Dallas Metro, Denver Metro, Houston Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Seattle Metro, and Washington, D.C.) • (Ideal) Experience delivering and managing Databricks and AWS Infra for hundreds 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

• Samsara’s compensation program: 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 • Competitive total compensation package • Employee-led remote and flexible working • Health benefits • Inclusive work environment and reasonable accommodations during recruiting process • Flexible working model with office access for those who prefer in-person • Additional benefits and details available on company Benefits site