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SamsaraStaff Engineer - Telematics
Samsara is a publicly traded technology company building a Connected Operations Cloud that utilizes Internet of Things data to enhance safety, sustainability, and efficiency across industries…
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Samsara is a publicly traded technology company building a Connected Operations Cloud that utilizes Internet of Things data to enhance safety, sustainability, and efficiency across industries such as manufacturing, transportation, construction, and agriculture. The enterprise offers various solutions like video safety, vehicle telematics, and equipment monitoring. As part of its growth, the organization is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to focus on telematics, routing, and workforce management products. This is…
Job Description
Samsara is a publicly traded technology company building a Connected Operations Cloud that utilizes Internet of Things data to enhance safety, sustainability, and efficiency across industries such as manufacturing, transportation, construction, and agriculture. The enterprise offers various solutions like video safety, vehicle telematics, and equipment monitoring. As part of its growth, the organization is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to focus on telematics, routing, and workforce management products.
This is a technical leadership position that involves significant hands-on coding and product development. The person in this role will interact directly with customers, establish technical direction, write code across APIs and services, and guide engineering teams. Applicants should have a background in scaling production software, solving ambiguous problems, and collaborating across departments like product and design.
The company provides a flexible remote work model supported by comprehensive health plans, a professional development stipend, parental leave, performance-based variable pay, and equity for eligible roles.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with customers and client-facing personnel to define unmet needs and test hypotheses
- Partner with product and design teams to establish success metrics before starting solutions
- Lead ambiguous projects from initial discovery and prototyping through production rollout and iteration
- Write and deploy code on critical paths across services, APIs, and user interfaces
- Establish technical direction and make pragmatic architecture decisions for rapid learning and scalable growth
- Monitor production quality, ensure system reliability and performance, and plan safe deployments
- Mentor senior engineers, facilitate code and design reviews, and remove delivery obstacles
- Hire, guide, and develop an engaged engineering team while championing company culture
Requirements
- Track record of shipping customer-facing software products and scaling them beyond launch
- Experience demonstrating measurable outcomes such as revenue growth, customer retention, or cost reduction
- Direct background working with users to clarify poorly defined problems and using evidence to make decisions
- Strong hands-on software engineering capabilities with recent experience building and operating production systems
- Demonstrated technical leadership across team boundaries without formal authority
Qualifications
- Experience building B2B software through an early growth stage
- Background working on routing, workforce management, or other physical operations software
Core Skills
Benefits
- Base salary combined with performance-based bonus or variable pay
- Equity in a high-growth public company for eligible roles
- Flexible remote working model
- Professional development stipend
- Comprehensive health plans
- Parental leave plans
Frequently Asked Questions
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Is this position remote?
Yes, the employer uses a flexible remote work model for this role.
What is the salary for this role?
The specific salary is not stated in the job posting, though the position includes base pay, performance-based variable pay, and equity for eligible roles.
What kind of experience is required?
Candidates must have a track record of shipping customer-facing products, strong product judgment, deep hands-on software engineering ability, and cross-functional technical leadership experience.
What is the employment type?
The posting indicates full-time employment.
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