Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Samsara is a pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, providing IoT data and software solutions for organizations that depend on physical operations. The Staff Software Engineer will set the technical direction for the Maps platform, building geospatial data pipelines, map data systems, routing foundations, and reusable APIs while supporting teams across the company.
Responsibilities
- Shape the technical direction of the Maps teams
- Build geospatial systems and integrations that support foundational features across most Samsara products
- Scale our offerings to continue to support storage, query and computational load of the real-time features dependent on them
- Consolidate existing team-specific geospatial solutions into scalable platform-wide offerings
- Build agentic solutions that allow our customers to self-serve the data they want to see how they want to see it
- Raise the technical bar through code reviews, design discussions, and mentorship
- Partner with engineering leadership on the bets worth making, and be honest about tradeoffs
- Represent Samsara externally when it makes sense — talks, open source, community engagement with the mapping/geospatial ecosystem
- Live out our cultural principles: Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, and Win as a Team
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years building software, with at least 2 years in an architect or technical leadership role
- Strong programming and design fundamentals
- 4+ years working on large-scale distributed systems
- 4+ years leading technical projects across multiple teams
- Experience with GIS technologies and spatial analysis, including PostGIS, spatial SQL, GeoPandas/Shapely, QGIS, and geospatial data validation
- Familiarity with geospatial data formats and open mapping ecosystems, including GeoParquet, OpenStreetMap (OSM), and OSM PBF; experience ingesting, transforming, validating, or serving these datasets
- Comfort working in ambiguity and getting teams aligned without needing formal authority
Benefits
- 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
- Flexible, employee-led remote model
- Professional development stipend
- Comprehensive health plans
- Parental leave plans
- Support for remote work where it aligns with operational requirements
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