Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, enabling organizations to harness IoT data for actionable insights. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build the core platform for agentic development, coordinating intelligent agents to automate complex tasks.
Responsibilities
- Build core infrastructure for multi-agent orchestration, including task planning, coordination, execution, and recovery
- Define and implement platform primitives and abstractions that enable internal teams to build and deploy new agents
- Design reliable backend services and APIs for agent discovery, state management, scheduling, and observability
- Architect systems to support scale, resilience, and long-running workflows across multiple concurrent agents
- Collaborate with internal teams building agents to refine APIs, tooling, and operational feedback loops
- Drive technical decisions in a high-ambiguity, early-stage environment where requirements evolve rapidly
- Own systems end to end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production operation
- 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
- 4+ years of Software Engineering experience
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building production systems
- Senior-level experience with high-scale backend or distributed systems
- Proficiency in Python
- Strong system design skills and production reliability mindset
- Comfortable working across the stack as needed
- Ability to operate in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
- Experience with Go
- Experience with agentic or autonomous systems, orchestration platforms, workflow engines, or automation infrastructure
- Familiarity with observability tooling, distributed tracing, and event-driven systems
- Experience designing APIs and internal tooling used by other engineering teams
Benefits
- Eligible for an initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff, and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance, subject to plan terms and conditions.
- Flexible, employee-led remote model
- A professional development stipend
- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
- 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.
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