Staff Software Engineer - Platform & Infrastructure

As a Staff Engineer at Samsara, you will help us spearhead the technical direction for the organisation, be a technical leader who brings fresh ideas and expertise to guide the team's technical design and architecture and enable increasingly complex features and customer use cases. You will work on specific projects critical to Samsara's needs alongside other highly skilled Samsara engineers and push Samsara's technical capabilities forward.

Responsibilities:

• Drive technology choices, implementing services, and/or establish architectural patterns that have a broad and lasting impact on Samsara's platform.
• Identify opportunities and initiate strategic conversations to influence the direction of platform technology and engineering culture.
• Architect, design, and develop software that enables Samsara to operate at scale.
• Lead teams in delivering products and capabilities that contribute to Samsara's products and revenue.
• Deliver impact by solving the hardest technical problems and enabling products to reach the market quickly and successfully with high quality.
• Keep a platform-first approach while collaborating with our infrastructure and product teams to build products, tools, and solutions.
• Act as a multiplier for the team, elevating the impact and output of every team member.
• Contribute to Samsara's engineering brand by representing Samsara in external-facing forums.
• 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.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm-related solutions with at least 4 of those years in an architect or leadership role.
• Stellar programming/coding fundamentals.
• 4+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems.
• 4+ years of experience leading cross-organisation projects.
• Expertise working with web services at a massive scale deployed on Cloud providers such as AWS, GCP or Azure.

An ideal candidate also:

• Has 15+ years of relevant industry experience in software development.
• Enjoys leading and mentoring engineers to think about systems - their life cycles, edge cases, and failure modes.
• Enjoys fostering collaboration among engineers with different focuses (frontend, mobile, firmware, vision, ML).
• Is an expert in writing high-quality, performant, and maintainable code in a modern programming language.
• Production experience working with JavaScript and/or client-side code.
• Expertise working on large-scale enterprise software applications.
• Demonstrated ability to ship production-quality software in a dynamic environment.
• Expert-level knowledge of at-scale stream-processing decision engines.