Samsara · 8 hours ago
Senior Staff Software Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$174K/yr - $310K/yr
12+ years expSamsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, helping organizations improve their physical operations through IoT data. The Senior Staff Software Engineer will lead technical strategy, architecture, and systems design within the Fleet Safety team, focusing on AI and machine learning to enhance driver safety solutions.
Business IntelligenceCloud Data ServicesInternet of ThingsSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Own the technical strategy across Fleet Safety: Define a coherent multi-year technical vision that aligns product needs with scalable architectures across video, telematics, and AI/ML workflows
Lead architecture and systems design for cross-cutting, ambiguous problems: Drive end-to-end definition, design quality, and delivery for the highest-impact initiatives; own one or more critical components that enable fast-paced innovation while meeting safety and reliability expectations
Advance AI/ML and Computer Vision in production: Translate research into robust customer-facing features—improving detection, classification, real-time feedback, and coaching workflows—with strong emphasis on system reliability, model lifecycle, and evaluation rigor
Scale distributed systems and data platforms: Evolve backend services, streaming pipelines, storage, and indexing for reliability, observability, security, and cost efficiency—reducing operational toil and improving performance at scale
Influence across teams to raise the engineering bar: Establish standards, guide difficult trade-offs, improve developer productivity, and ensure systems fit together cleanly to accelerate product delivery
Mentor and grow engineers: Actively coach Staff-level engineers, institutionalize best practices, and create mechanisms (documentation, automation, design reviews) that scale your impact and foster a culture of ownership, rigor, and inclusion
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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering
12+ years of experience as a software engineer building customer-facing applications, with at least 8 of those years in an architect or leadership role, and 6+ years of experience leading cross-organization projects
Entrepreneurial experience with a track record of success for early-stage products
Stellar programming/coding fundamentals
Expertise in working on large-scale enterprise software applications
Preferred
Master's Degree or PhD in Computer Science/Engineering
Experience in applying Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence to real-world applications
Technical mastery in Go, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, C/C++, or other similar languages
Benefits
Employee-led remote and flexible working
Health benefits
Competitive total compensation package
Company
Samsara
Samsara is digitizing the world of physical operations.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$930MKey Investors
General CatalystAndreessen Horowitz
2021-12-15IPO
2020-09-24Secondary Market
2020-05-20Series F· $700M
Leadership Team
Sanjit Biswas
CEO
Ben Calderon
CTO - Hardware & Operations
Recent News
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