Staff Software Engineer - Platform and Infrastructure

Samsara
Indiana
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 12+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["English","Communication","Leadership","Problem-solving","Teamwork"]

Senior technical leadership role focusing on building foundational platform infrastructure for Samsara’s software products. You will drive architecture across distributed systems, container orchestration, real-time data ingestion, and GraphQL execution, influence engineering culture, lead cross-team projects, and scale Samsara’s platform to support millions of IoT devices and enterprise customers.

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Samsara
Samsara
10 months ago

Staff Software Engineer - Platform and Infrastructure

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Job Summary

Senior technical leadership role focusing on building foundational platform infrastructure for Samsara’s software products. You will drive architecture across distributed systems, container orchestration, real-time data ingestion, and GraphQL execution, influence engineering culture, lead cross-team projects, and scale Samsara’s platform to support millions of IoT devices and enterprise customers.
Location: Indiana
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Drive technology choices, implementing services, and/or establishing 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.

Key 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 years in an architect or leadership role.
  • •4+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems.
  • •4+ years of experience leading cross-organization projects.
  • •Expertise working with web services at a massive scale deployed on Cloud providers such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
Experience:12+ yearsIoTEnterprise softwareCloud
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:EnglishCommunicationLeadershipProblem-solvingTeamwork
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GraphQLContainer orchestrationReal-time data ingestionAWSGCPAzureJavaScriptDistributed systemsCloud services

Company Brief

Samsara
Provides an integrated IoT platform combining hardware sensors, cameras, and cloud-based software to help businesses monitor vehicles, equipment, and operations for fleet management, safety, compliance, and operational efficiency.
Industry: Supply Chain Technology
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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