

Staff Software Engineer
Job Description
The Samsara R&D Data team drives analytic capabilities and scalable data technologies, enabling decision-making, science, engineering, and product development across Samsara. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a technical leader, responsible for designing and driving software, tools, and a data architecture focused on enabling self-service adoption at scale. Your work and scope will include our core data model and the software architecture that runs it. You will work closely with scientists, data engineers, and software engineers, as well as full-stack, firmware, and platform teams.
Responsibilities
Lead an org-wide architecture that will enable self-service data consumption across Samsara. Democratize the use of data through software and data sets.
Design novel data-related technologies that scale
Own and lead the design and build-out of our Data Model.
Tech-lead a team of software and data engineers
Work with petabyte-scale data from the Samsara products, including camera and sensor devices
Stay connected to industry and academic research and adopt novel technology that suits Samsara’s needs
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
Job Requirements
A post-secondary degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or other relevant field
8+ years experience as a Software Engineer, or a Data Engineer with a software focus. 2+ years in technical leadership
Experience designing and building large-scale data models
A strong understanding of SWE fundamentals
Expert experience in Spark, SQL, Scala, Python, Go, and other relevant technologies
Ability to distill informal or ambiguous customer and business requirements into crisp problem definitions
Proven ability to communicate verbally and in writing to technical peers and leadership teams with various levels of technical knowledge
Experience coaching and mentoring scientists