Staff Software Engineer, Maps Services

🕒 August 24

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $162.4k - $290k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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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

• Set the technical direction of the Maps teams • Build geospatial systems and integrations supporting foundational features across Samsara products • Scale storage, query, and computational capacity for real-time features • Consolidate team-specific geospatial solutions into scalable platform-wide offerings • Build agentic solutions enabling customers to self-serve desired data views • Raise the technical bar through code reviews, design discussions, and mentorship • Partner with engineering leadership on strategic bets and tradeoffs • Represent Samsara externally through talks, open source, and mapping/geospatial community engagement • Collaborate with internal and external customers to iterate and build software platforms

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience • 8+ years building software • At least 2 years in an architect or technical leadership role • Strong programming and design fundamentals • 4+ years working on large-scale distributed systems • 4+ years leading technical projects across multiple teams • Experience with GIS technologies and spatial analysis, including PostGIS, spatial SQL, GeoPandas/Shapely, QGIS, and geospatial data validation • Familiarity with geospatial data formats and open mapping ecosystems, including GeoParquet, OpenStreetMap (OSM), and OSM PBF • Experience ingesting, transforming, validating, or serving geospatial datasets • Legal right to work at the company and in the specified work location

🏖️ Benefits

• Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff • Ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance • Performance-based bonus/variable pay • Equity for eligible roles • Flexible, employee-led remote model • Professional development stipend • Comprehensive health plans • Parental leave plans • Flexible working model • Offices available for employees who prefer to work in-person • Equal opportunity employment • Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process