About the role:
Samsara is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Developer Experience team. You will play a key role in architecture and design choices that will develop and evolve the tools and processes that Samsara engineers rely upon to build release and operate safe scalable and efficient applications. The team owns our CI/CD platform GitHub organization developer environments and unit and integration testing capabilities.
This is a remote position open to candidates residing in Canada.
You should apply if:
- You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software firmware and hardware you build will result in realworld impacthelping to keep the lights on get food into grocery stores and most importantly ensure workers return home safely.
- You want to build for scale: With over 2.3 million IoT devices deployed to our global customers you will work on a range of new and mature technologies driving scalable innovation for customers across industries driving the worlds physical operations.
- You are a lifelong learner: We have ambitious goals. Every Samsarian has a growth mindset as we work with a wide range of technologies challenges and customers that push us to learn on the go.
- You believe customers are more than a number: Samsara engineers enjoy a rare closeness to the end user and you will have the opportunity to participate in customer interviews collaborate with customer success and product managers and use metrics to ensure our work is translating into better customer outcomes.
- You are a team player: Working on our Samsara Engineering teams requires a mix of independent effort and collaboration. Motivated by our mission were all racing toward our connected operations vision and we intend to wintogether.
In this role you will:
- Build platform tooling for product teams to selfservice and own delivery and operations of their services.
- Improve the efficiency of delivering new features to production through understanding engineering pain points and friction and proposing solutions that improve productivity across many teams.
- Create best practices and support systems for engineers to deliver the best customer experience in the industry.
- Research and deeply understand the needs of our customers (both internal and external).
- Guide projects from concept to ideation to implementation to feedback and improvements.
- Collaborate crossfunctionally with Design Product Customer Success and Engineering stakeholders to create sustained and aligned impact.
- Champion role model and embed Samsaras 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.
Minimum requirements for the role:
- 8 years of experience working professionally with modern development practices.
- Strong programming/coding fundamentals in a language such as Java Python or Golang.
- Experience designing and architecting large highscale systems.
- Experience improving and scaling CI/CD systems.
- A focus on and desire to mentor fellow engineers.
- An ability to estimate communicate and deliver upon project milestones with your team.
An ideal candidate also has:
- Indepth experience working with public cloud providers such as AWS Azure or GCP.
- Is adept at building and using observability tools frameworks and standards.
- Knows their way around a UNIX shell and a Linux operating system.
- Enjoys thinking about systems their life cycles edge cases interactions and failure modes.
- Enjoys working collaboratively with developers of different focuses (such as frontend mobile firmware ML/computer vision).
Required Experience:
Senior IC