Who we are
Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, which is a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations. At Samsara, we are helping improve the safety, efficiency and sustainability of the physical operations that power our global economy.
About the role
Samsara is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Data Platform team, which owns and develops the core analytical platform across Samsara. This team builds and maintains the infrastructure that powers Samsara’s data lake, distributed compute platform, and the systems that move data from our production data stores into our lakehouse.
As a Software Engineer on Data Platform, you will design, build, and operate reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure for ingesting, processing, cataloging, and accessing petabytes of data. You will work on the foundational systems that enable engineers, data scientists, analysts, and product teams across Samsara to build customer-facing features, train models, develop operational insights, and support the company’s long-term AI and analytics roadmap.
This is a specialized software engineering role focused on data infrastructure. You will work on systems such as Spark and Databricks infrastructure, Delta Lake on S3, data replication from primary data stores such as RDS and DynamoDB, orchestration and metadata services, internal data libraries, and infrastructure tooling across the big data ecosystem.
In this role, you will:
- Design, build, and operate high-scale data ingestion and replication systems from Samsara’s primary production data stores, including RDS, DynamoDB, internal APIs, and event-driven systems, into our data lakehouse.
- Build and maintain reliable, scalable, and modern data platform infrastructure capable of handling petabytes of data across Samsara’s analytics, AI, product, and operational use cases.
- Improve the reliability, observability, scalability, security, and developer experience of Samsara’s Spark and Databricks-based data processing platform.
- Develop internal libraries, APIs, frameworks, and tooling in languages such as Go and Python to help teams across Samsara move, process, discover, and access data safely and efficiently.
- Work on foundational data lake and lakehouse technologies, including Delta Lake on S3, data catalogs, metadata services, orchestration systems, and platform automation.
- Collaborate closely with infrastructure, product engineering, data science, analytics, security, and data engineering teams to understand platform needs and deliver durable, scalable solutions.
- Stay connected to modern data platform technologies and help shape Samsara’s long-term data infrastructure roadmap, including support for AI, privacy, security, global scale, and customer-facing data products.
- 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.
Our compensation program delivers above-market total compensation through a combination of base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity (for eligible roles) in a high-growth public company. Annual Base Salary: $113,645—$191,000 USD. This role is also eligible for an initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff, and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance. Beyond compensation, we provide the foundations that enable long-term success: a flexible, employee-led remote model, a professional development stipend, comprehensive health and parental leave plans, and more. Learn more about our total rewards and benefits.
Minimum requirements for the role:
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience in production environments.
- 4+ years of experience building or maintaining large-scale production data infrastructure, data platforms, distributed systems, or data lake systems.
- Strong experience with Apache Spark or similar distributed data processing systems.
- Experience operating production infrastructure in AWS, including services such as S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, Lambda, or similar.
- Experience designing, building, and operating reliable systems with strong ownership of scalability, observability, security, and operational excellence.
- Proficiency in at least one production programming language such as Go, Python, Scala, or Java.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners, including software engineers, data scientists, analysts, security teams, and product stakeholders.
An ideal candidate also has:
- Experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, or similar lakehouse technologies such as Iceberg or Hudi.
- Experience building data replication or ingestion systems from OLTP data stores into a data lake or lakehouse.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Familiarity with data catalogs, metadata systems, and data discovery tools such as Unity Catalog, Hive Metastore, DataHub, or Amundsen.
- Experience with orchestration systems such as Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect.
- Experience with streaming data, event-driven architectures, or systems that handle late-arriving or mutable data.
- Familiarity with containerization or orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or Fargate.
- Experience building internal platforms, libraries, or developer tooling used by other engineering teams.
- Experience contributing to data infrastructure roadmaps, evaluating new technologies, and driving improvements that create leverage for internal and external customers.
