Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

🕒 July 9

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

☁️ Cloud Engineer

🇬🇧 UK Skilled Worker Visa Sponsor

This company has sponsored UK Skilled Worker visas in the past.

👻 Ghost score 38%

What it means: how likely this posting is sitting open without active hiring.How to read it: 60% or higher means we think this is a ghost. Lower scores are less of a worry.How we score it: age, reposts, open roles vs team size, how fast jobs close, and whether pay is listed.Fine print: an estimate from public data, not a judgment of the company. Real jobs can score high, so treat it as a hint, not a fact.

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Set Up Email Alert For New Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

Samsara

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2015

📦 Logistics

🏗️ Construction

🏥 Healthcare

💰 Seed Round on 2014-08

Logistics • Construction • Healthcare

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.

📋 Description

• Evolve the cloud foundations behind every Samsara product • Reduce systemic production risk and enable growth by making infrastructure safer to change, easier to operate, more resilient, and cost-efficient at scale • Design, build, and operate reliable cloud platforms across compute, networking, storage, stateful systems, and infrastructure control planes • Improve scalability, capacity management, isolation, recovery, and cost efficiency of critical production infrastructure • Build standardized infrastructure-as-code workflows and reusable automation for self-service provisioning, testing, progressive rollout, reconciliation, rollback, and drift prevention • Identify shared failure modes and build safeguards that prevent localized failures from escalating into broad customer impact • Contribute to multi-account, multi-region, and isolated AWS architectures, including regulated environments such as GovCloud • Participate in operational ownership and incident response, using incidents and near misses to drive architectural improvements • Mentor engineers and establish infrastructure design and operational patterns across the organization • Communicate architecture, trade-offs, risks, and migration plans to technical and organizational stakeholders • Collaborate with product engineering teams, customer success, product managers, and customers to improve outcomes • Champion Samsara’s cultural principles as the company scales globally and across new offices

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of experience designing and building software, infrastructure, or distributed systems, including operating critical systems in production • Deep expertise in compute and workload orchestration, networking, storage and stateful systems, or cloud infrastructure control planes • Strong software-engineering fundamentals in Go, Python, Java, or a similar language • Hands-on experience designing and operating infrastructure on a major public cloud platform; AWS experience is preferred • Experience using infrastructure as code, such as Terraform, to safely manage production infrastructure • Strong understanding of capacity management, failure domains, observability, rollout safety, and production recovery • Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives across teams and through ambiguous problem spaces • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience • Experience with large-scale compute or container platforms such as ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, or similar orchestration systems is ideal • Experience with stateful distributed systems such as Kafka, OpenSearch, managed databases, caching, or large-scale storage platforms is ideal • Experience building internal infrastructure platforms, control planes, or self-service developer experiences is ideal • Experience designing multi-account or multi-region cloud architectures with workload isolation and disaster recovery is ideal • Experience leading major infrastructure migrations while maintaining availability and controlling operational risk is ideal • Experience delivering measurable improvements in infrastructure capacity, cost efficiency, or developer self-service is ideal • Ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the company and in the specified work location, if applicable

🏖️ Benefits

• Above-market total compensation combining base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity for eligible roles • Flexible, employee-led remote model • Professional development stipend • Comprehensive health plans • Parental leave plans • Offices available for employees who prefer to work in-person • Remote work support where aligned with operational requirements