Senior Software Engineer – Data Platform

🕒 June 9

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $130.9k - $220k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

Where this job comes from

Posted on Samsara's careers page, not through a job board

First seen by Remote Rocketship June 9

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Samsara

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

• Design, build, and operate high-scale data ingestion and replication systems from Samsara’s primary production data stores, including RDS, DynamoDB, internal APIs, and event-driven systems, into our data lakehouse. • Build and maintain reliable, scalable, and modern data platform infrastructure capable of handling petabytes of data across Samsara’s analytics, AI, product, and operational use cases. • Improve the reliability, observability, scalability, security, and developer experience of Samsara’s Spark and Databricks-based data processing platform. • Develop internal libraries, APIs, frameworks, and tooling in languages such as Go and Python to help teams across Samsara move, process, discover, and access data safely and efficiently. • Work on foundational data lake and lakehouse technologies, including Delta Lake on S3, data catalogs, metadata services, orchestration systems, and platform automation. • Collaborate closely with infrastructure, product engineering, data science, analytics, security, and data engineering teams to understand platform needs and deliver durable, scalable solutions. • Stay connected to modern data platform technologies and help shape Samsara’s long-term data infrastructure roadmap, including support for AI, privacy, security, global scale, and customer-facing data products. • Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles as we scale globally and across new offices.

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience in production environments. • 4+ years of experience building or maintaining large-scale production data infrastructure, data platforms, distributed systems, or data lake systems. • Strong experience with Apache Spark or similar distributed data processing systems. • Experience operating production infrastructure in AWS, including services such as S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, Lambda, or similar. • Experience designing, building, and operating reliable systems with strong ownership of scalability, observability, security, and operational excellence. • Proficiency in at least one production programming language such as Go, Python, Scala, or Java. • Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners, including software engineers, data scientists, analysts, security teams, and product stakeholders.

🏖️ Benefits

• flexible, employee-led remote model • professional development stipend • comprehensive health and parental leave plans

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