Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, helping organizations that depend on physical operations use IoT data to improve safety, efficiency, and sustainability. The Staff Software Engineer will define technical strategy, build and scale AI-powered products and platform capabilities, deliver full-stack features, and provide technical leadership across teams.
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of technically complex, mission-critical areas and run with them. We want to point you in a direction and show up to the demo meeting impressed, not spend our weeks managing the details
- Define and drive technical strategy for new products and platform capabilities, from backend services and APIs to the customer-facing UI
- Design and ship full-stack features end to end. You'll work across backend, frontend, and potentially mobile to deliver AI-powered products that solve real operational problems
- Partner with product, design, and customer-facing teams to translate ambiguous, real-world problems into clear technical plans and measurable outcomes
- Build and scale the systems behind AI-driven products, including data ingestion, APIs, and the workflows that put intelligence into the hands of operators
- Raise the bar for the engineers around you through code reviews, design reviews, technical mentorship, and by setting a standard for quality, velocity, and craft
- 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, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of experience in software design and development, including building and operating production systems at scale
- Strong full-stack fundamentals. You're comfortable working across backend services, APIs, and frontend (web or mobile) to ship complete products
- Proficiency in modern languages and frameworks (Go, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, or similar)
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-team or cross-org projects from inception through rollout, including managing ambiguity, driving alignment, and delivering measurable impact
- Experience building AI-powered or data-driven products. You don't need to train models, but you know how to take AI capabilities and turn them into products customers love
- Strong communication skills and the ability to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders
- A track record of building: zero-to-one products, systems you left in a meaningfully better place, or hard problems you refused to let stay unsolved
- This role is remote and open to candidates residing in the US. Relocation assistance will not be provided for this role
- Experience shipping AI-powered features in production, whether that's LLM-based products, agentic workflows, recommendation systems, or other customer-facing AI
- Comfort with modern AI-augmented development workflows (Cursor, LLMs, etc.) to multiply your output and accelerate delivery
- Background working with real-world operational data (telematics, sensor data, work orders, inspections) or a strong interest in learning the domain
- A proven track record of mentoring senior engineers and influencing engineering culture, standards, and best practices beyond a single team
- Side projects, open-source contributions, or other signals of curiosity and drive outside the scope of your day job
Benefits
- This role is also eligible for an 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
- Equity (for eligible roles) in a high-growth public company
- A flexible, employee-led remote model
- A professional development stipend
- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
- Remote work where it aligns with our operational requirements
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