Who We Are
Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations.
At Samsara, we help improve the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of the physical operations that power our global economy. Representing more than 40% of global GDP, these industries—agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing—are the infrastructure of our planet, and we are excited to digitally transform them at scale.
Working at Samsara means you’ll help define the future of physical operations and be on a team shaping an exciting array of product solutions, including Video-Based Safety, Vehicle Telematics, Apps and Driver Workflows, and Equipment Monitoring. As part of a recently public company, you’ll have the autonomy and support to make an impact as we build for the long term.
About the Role
Samsara is hiring a Senior Software Engineer II to join our Operational Excellence (OPX) team within the Developer Experience (DevEx) organization. DevEx is responsible for the engineering environment that a globally distributed engineering organization relies on every day, from build and deploy systems to development tooling and AI‑assisted workflows that help teams move quickly and confidently.
Within DevEx, the OPX team keeps production healthy at scale. We provide engineering teams the platform capabilities, observability tooling, automated safeguards, incident management tooling, and safe feature release systems they need to deliver highly available systems, ship features with confidence, and investigate and mitigate incidents faster.
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.
- You are a lifelong learner: 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 translates into better customer outcomes.
- You are a team player: Working on our engineering teams requires 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
- Design and build automated reliability and self‑healing systems that protect production at scale, including automated rollbacks, deploy safeguards, and fault mitigation, and deliver them as platform tooling that engineering teams across the company adopt for their own services.
- Own and improve incident management tooling and on‑call health, reducing alert noise, surfacing actionable signals, and empowering engineering teams to operate their services confidently with minimal operational burden.
- Develop and evolve our observability infrastructure, including monitoring, alerting, SLOs, and performance regression detection, to give teams real‑time, actionable visibility into system health and latency.
- Contribute to AI‑driven operational tooling that goes beyond triage, building toward autonomous remediation where AI detects issues, takes corrective action, and self‑recovers with minimal human involvement.
- Drive incident prevention by identifying systemic patterns and ruthlessly eliminating operational toil, with deep empathy for on‑call engineers and a bias toward improving their lives.
- Partner directly with product engineering teams to diagnose reliability gaps, reduce their operational burden, and help them adopt best practices for running their services.
- Define and champion operational excellence best practices across engineering through guardrails, scorecards, and standards that help teams run their services reliably by default.
- 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 designing and building products in a software engineering team.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of experience on infrastructure and/or platform engineering focused teams.
- Expertise in observability and reliability, operational metrics, and data analysis.
- Proven track record architecting monitoring frameworks, SLO platforms, and automated response workflows (Datadog or equivalent observability tooling such as New Relic, Grafana).
- Proven experience working on large‑scale enterprise software applications.
- Experience in Developer Experience (DevEx) & internal portals: designing and implementing solutions/tools that centralise and simplify engineering operations.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or the like).
- Experience implementing AI‑driven automation across the software development lifecycle to reduce developer friction, automate repetitive technical tasks, and accelerate time‑to‑delivery.
- Strong code‑quality focus (Go, Python, or equivalent) focused on infrastructure, deployment, and operations challenges.
- Experience mentoring and supporting engineers and role‑modeling engineering practices within a technical lead capacity.
- Proactive growth mindset, always looking for ways to improve the status quo.
An Ideal Candidate Also Has
- B.S. in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
- Strong communication skills and desire to collaborate across teams.
- Experience with incident management tooling (Incident.io, PagerDuty, or equivalent).
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – Terraform.
Total Rewards
We deliver above‑market total compensation through a combination of base salary, performance‑based bonus/variable pay, and equity (for eligible roles) in a high‑growth public company. Beyond compensation, we provide a flexible, employee‑led remote model, a professional development stipend, comprehensive health and parental leave plans, and more.
Flexible Working
We embrace a flexible working model that caters to the diverse needs of our teams. Our offices are open for those who prefer to work in‑person and we also support remote work where it aligns with our operational requirements. For certain positions, proximity to an office or specific geographic region may be required. All offers of employment are contingent upon an individual’s ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the company and in the specified work location, if applicable.
Belonging at Samsara
We welcome everyone regardless of their background. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, and other characteristics protected by law.
Accommodations
We are an inclusive work environment and are committed to ensuring equal opportunity in employment for qualified persons with disabilities. If you require any reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process, please email accessibleinterviewing@samsara.com.
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