Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform

About the role:

Samsara is looking for a Senior Software Engineer I to join our Data Platform team which owns and develops the core analytical platform across Samsara. This team builds and maintains the infrastructure that powers Samsara’s data lake distributed compute platform and the systems that move data from our production data stores into our lakehouse.

As a Senior Software Engineer on Data Platform you will design build and operate reliable scalable and secure infrastructure for ingesting processing cataloging and accessing petabytes of data. You will work on the foundational systems that enable engineers data scientists analysts and product teams across Samsara to build customer-facing features train models develop operational insights and support the company’s long-term AI and analytics roadmap.

This is a specialized software engineering role focused on data infrastructure. You will work on systems such as Spark and Databricks infrastructure Delta Lake on S3 data replication from primary data stores such as RDS and DynamoDB orchestration and metadata services internal data libraries and infrastructure tooling across the big data ecosystem.

This role is not an analytics or business data engineering role. If your experience is primarily focused on SQL modeling BI dashboards ETL tools or building business-facing data marts this role is likely not the right fit. The ideal candidate is a software engineer with deep experience building and operating production data platforms distributed systems or large-scale ingestion infrastructure.

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US. Relocation assistance will not be provided for this role.

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.

• 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 (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:

• 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.

An ideal candidate also has:

• Experience with Databricks Delta Lake or similar lakehouse technologies such as Iceberg or Hudi.
• Experience building data replication or ingestion systems from OLTP data stores into a data lake or lakehouse.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Familiarity with data catalogs metadata systems and data discovery tools such as Unity Catalog Hive Metastore DataHub or Amundsen.
• Experience with orchestration systems such as Airflow Dagster or Prefect.
• Experience with streaming data event-driven architectures or systems that handle late-arriving or mutable data.
• Familiarity with containerization or orchestration technologies such as Docker Kubernetes ECS or Fargate.
• Experience building internal platforms libraries or developer tooling used by other engineering teams.
• Experience contributing to data infrastructure roadmaps evaluating new technologies and driving improvements that create leverage for internal and external customers.

What We Do

Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations® Platform which is an open platform that connects the people devices and systems of some of the world’s most complex operations allowing them to develop actionable insights and improve their operations. With tens of thousands of customers across North America and Europe Samsara is a proud technology partner to the people who keep our global economy running including the world’s leading organizations across industries in transportation construction wholesale and retail trade field services logistics manufacturing utilities and energy government healthcare and education food and beverage and others. The company's mission is to increase the safety efficiency and sustainability of the operations that power the global economy.

Why Work With Us

Do the most meaningful work of your career—saving lives keeping communities running and transforming the industries that power the global economy. At Samsara we build AI-powered technology for the people who keep the world running—making essential work safer smarter and more sustainable.

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