[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer I - Agent Foundations @Samsara

Role Description

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build the core platform that will make Samsara “agentic.” This platform enables agentic development across the company by coordinating intelligent agents to automate complex tasks.

• Work on a foundational system that scales from a small set of specialized agents today to dozens of agents in production over the next year.
• This is zero-to-one work: help define core primitives, solve hard systems problems, and build service components that other teams will rely on.
• Work on the full stack behind the agents including: greenfield products, modalities, internal tooling, evaluations, and observability.
• Final interview stage is a full-day, in-person onsite at our SF office.
• This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US or Canada. Relocation assistance will not be provided for this role.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of Software Engineering experience
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building production systems
• Senior-level experience with high-scale backend or distributed systems
• Proficiency in Python
• Strong system design skills and production reliability mindset
• Comfortable working across the stack as needed
• Ability to operate in fast-moving, ambiguous environments

Requirements

• Experience with Go
• Experience with agentic or autonomous systems, orchestration platforms, workflow engines, or automation infrastructure
• Familiarity with observability tooling, distributed tracing, and event-driven systems
• Experience designing APIs and internal tooling used by other engineering teams

Benefits

• Annual Base Salary: $187,000 — $220,000 USD
• Above-market total compensation through a combination of base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity (for eligible roles)
• Flexible, employee-led remote model
• Professional development stipend
• Comprehensive health and parental leave plans