Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Samsara is a connected operations cloud company that helps organizations using physical operations improve safety, efficiency, and sustainability. The Senior Software Engineer II will join the Developer Experience Operational Excellence team to build reliability, observability, incident management, deployment safeguards, and AI-driven operational tooling that improves system stability and reduces operational burden across engineering.
Responsibilities
- 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. Reduce alert noise, surface actionable signals, and empower 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. You have deep empathy for on-call engineers and a bias toward making their lives better
- 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
Skills
- This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the Eastern Time (ET) zone in the US and Canada
- Relocation assistance will not be provided for this 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 using Datadog (or equivalent observability tooling such as New Relic or Grafana)
- * Proven experience working on large-scale enterprise software applications
- * Experience in Developer Experience (DevEx) and internal portals: designing and implementing solutions/tools that centralize and simplify engineering operations
- * Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or similar)
- * Experience implementing AI-driven automation across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to reduce developer friction, automate repetitive technical tasks, and accelerate time-to-delivery
- * Routinely applies AI tools across your workflow
- * Experience writing high-quality code (Go, Python, or equivalent) focused on infrastructure, deployment, and operations challenges
- * Experience mentoring and supporting engineers and role modeling engineering practices in a technical lead capacity
- * Proactive growth mindset, always looking for ways to improve the status quo
- 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
- * Strong communication skills and a desire to collaborate across teams
- * Experience with incident management tooling (Incident.io, PagerDuty, or equivalent)
- * Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) — Terraform
Benefits
- An initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff
- Ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance, subject to plan terms and conditions
- Performance-based bonus/variable pay
- Equity (for eligible roles)
- A flexible, employee-led remote model
- A professional development stipend
- Comprehensive health plans
- Parental leave plans
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