[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @Samsara

Role Description

Samsara is hiring a Senior Software Engineer II to join our Operational Excellence (OPX) team within the Developer Experience organization.

• Design and build automated reliability and self-healing systems that protect production at scale, including automated rollbacks, deploy safeguards, and fault mitigation.
• Own and improve incident management tooling and on-call health.
• Develop and evolve our observability infrastructure, including monitoring, alerting, SLOs, and performance regression detection.
• Contribute to AI-driven operational tooling that goes beyond triage, building toward autonomous remediation.
• Drive incident prevention by identifying systemic patterns and ruthlessly eliminating operational toil.
• Partner directly with product engineering teams to diagnose reliability gaps and reduce their operational burden.
• Define and champion operational excellence best practices across engineering.
• Champion and embed Samsara’s cultural principles as we scale globally.

Qualifications

• 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 in infrastructure and/or platform engineering-focused teams.
• Expertise in Observability and reliability, operational metrics, and data analysis.
• Proven track record in architecting monitoring frameworks, SLO platforms, and automated response workflows.
• Proven experience working on large-scale enterprise software applications.
• Experience in Developer Experience (DevEx) & Internal Portals.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or the like).
• Experience in implementing AI-driven automation across the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Familiarity with writing high-quality code (Go, Python, or equivalent).
• Experience mentoring and supporting engineers within a technical lead capacity.
• Proactive growth mindset, always looking at ways to improve the status quo.

Requirements

• Strong communication skills and a desire to collaborate across teams.
• Experience with incident management tooling (Incident.io, PagerDuty, or equivalent).
• Experienced with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Terraform.

Benefits

• Annual Base Salary: $154,700 — $208,000 USD.
• Above-market total compensation through a combination of base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity.
• Flexible, employee-led remote model.
• Professional development stipend.
• Comprehensive health and parental leave plans.