Senior Software Engineer II, Developer Experience

About the role:

Samsara is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Developer Experience team. You will play a key role in architecture and design choices that will develop and evolve the tools and processes that Samsara engineers rely upon to build, release and operate safe, scalable and efficient applications. The team owns our CI/CD platform, GitHub organization, developer environments and unit and integration testing capabilities.

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US except the San Francisco Bay Metro Area, NYC Metro Area, and Washington, D.C. Metro Area.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software, firmware, and hardware you build will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You want to build for scale: With over 2.3 million IoT devices deployed to our global customers, you will work on a range of new and mature technologies driving scalable innovation for customers across industries driving the world's physical operations.
• You are a life-long learner: We have ambitious goals. Every Samsarian has a growth mindset as we work with a wide range of technologies, challenges, and customers that push us to learn on the go.
• You believe customers are more than a number: Samsara engineers enjoy a rare closeness to the end user and you will have the opportunity to participate in customer interviews, collaborate with customer success and product managers, and use metrics to ensure our work is translating into better customer outcomes.
• You are a team player: Working on our Samsara Engineering teams requires a mix of independent effort and collaboration. Motivated by our mission, we’re all racing toward our connected operations vision, and we intend to win—together.

In this role, you will: 

• Build platform tooling for product teams to self-service and own delivery and operations of their services.
• Improve the efficiency of delivering new features to production through understanding engineering pain points and friction and proposing solutions that improve productivity across many teams.
• Create best practices and support systems for engineers to deliver the best customer experience in the industry.
• Research and deeply understand the needs of our customers (both internal and external).
• Guide projects from concept, to ideation, to implementation, to feedback and improvements.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Design, Product, Customer Success, and Engineering stakeholders to create sustained and aligned impact.
• 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.

Minimum requirements for the role:

• 8+ years of experience working professionally with modern development practices.
• Strong programming/coding fundamentals in a language such as Java, Python, or Golang.
• Experience designing and architecting large, high-scale systems.
• Experience improving and scaling CI/CD systems.
• A focus on and desire to mentor fellow engineers.
• An ability to estimate, communicate, and deliver upon project milestones with your team.

An ideal candidate also has:

• In-depth experience working with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Is adept at building and using observability tools, frameworks, and standards.
• Knows their way around a UNIX shell and a Linux operating system.
• Enjoys thinking about systems - their life cycles, edge cases, interactions, and failure modes.
• Enjoys working collaboratively with developers of different focuses (such as frontend, mobile, firmware, ML/computer vision).