Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Samsara is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Commercial Navigation team. The role owns and delivers commercial fleet navigation features across mobile, backend services, and web, improving guided trips, routing, safety, and visibility for drivers and fleet managers.
Responsibilities
- Take full ownership of navigation initiatives from design through production rollout, including follow-up on quality, adoption, and customer impact after launch
- Write maintainable, well-tested code and hold a high bar in design and code review. Use modern development tools, including AI-assisted workflows, with sound judgment. Improve observability, testing, and the systems that keep navigation reliable in production
- Design and ship features across mobile, backend services, and web—driver navigation experiences, admin visibility, optimized routing, and safety-focused navigation capabilities
- Clarify what you are building and why: learn from fleet managers and drivers, align with the product team on priorities, define success metrics, plan milestones, and raise risks and tradeoffs before they become surprises
- Work closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and partners in Maps, Telematics, and adjacent teams to deliver cohesive navigation experiences end to end
- 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
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years of experience
- Proven experience shipping customer-facing software in production across multiple surfaces (e.g. mobile, web, and/or backend services), with depth in at least one and the ability to contribute effectively in the others
- Comfortable using AI development tools with judgment in day-to-day engineering
- Experience building mobile applications, including React Native
- Experience shipping and maintaining features over several years, demonstrating long-term ownership
- Domain expertise in logistics, or industrial IoT, especially building mobile apps for drivers or field workers or familiarity with geospatial or mapping technologies
Benefits
- Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff, and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance, subject to plan terms and conditions.
- Performance-based bonus/variable pay.
- Flexible, employee-led remote model.
- Professional development stipend.
- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans.
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