About the role
We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our team. Data and Analytics is a critical team within Business Technology. Our mission is to enable integrated data layers for all of Samsara and Samsara customers with the insights tools infrastructure and consultation to make data driven decisions. We are a growing team that loves all things data! The team will be composed of data engineers architects analysts and data scientists. We are passionate about leveraging world class data and analytics to deliver a great customer experience.
Our team promotes an agile collaborative supportive environment where diverse thinking innovative design and experimentation is welcomed and encouraged.
This is a remote role open to candidates residing in the US except Alaska Austin Metro Boulder Metro California Chicago Metro Connecticut Dallas Metro Denver Metro Houston Metro Maryland Massachusetts New Jersey New York Rhode Island Seattle Metro and Washington D.C.
You should apply if:
- You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in realworld impacthelping to keep the lights on get food into grocery stores reduce emissions and most importantly ensure workers return home safely.
- You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work this role wont be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
- Youre energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative ambitious ideas for our customers.
- You want to be with the best: At Samsara we win together celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a highcaliber team that will encourage you to do your best.
In this role you will:
- Develop and maintain E2E data pipelines backend ingestion and participate in the build of Samsaras Data Platform to enable advanced automation and analytics.
- Work with data from a variety of sources including but not limited to: CRM data Product data Marketing data Order flow data Support ticket volume data.
- Manage critical data pipelines to enable our growth initiatives and advanced analytics.
- Facilitate data integration and transformation requirements for moving data between applications; ensuring interoperability of applications with data layers and data lake.
- Develop and improve the current data architecture data quality monitoring observability and data availability.
- Write data transformations in SQL/Python to generate data products consumed by customer systems and Analytics Marketing Operations Sales Operations teams.
- 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:
- A Bachelors degree in computer science data engineering data science information technology or equivalent engineering program.
- Excellent interpersonal and crossfunctional collaboration skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively.
- 5 years of work experience as a data engineer including 3 years of experience in designing developing testing and maintaining E2E data pipelines.
- Experience with modern cloudbased datalake and datawarehousing technology stacks and familiarity with typical dataengineering tools ETL/ELT and datawarehousing processes and best practices.
- Experience with the following:
- 5 years in Python SQL.
- Exposure to ETL tools such as Fivetran DBT or equivalent.
- API: Exposure to python based API frameworks for data pipelines.
- RDBMS: MySQL AWS RDS/Aurora MySQL PostgreSQL Oracle MS SQLServer or equivalent.
- Cloud: AWS Azure and/or GCP.
- Data warehouse: Databricks Snowflake or equivalent.
An ideal candidate has:
- Comfortable in working with business customers to gather requirements and gain a deep understanding of varied datasets.
- A selfstarter motivated responsible innovative and technologydriven person who performs well both solo and as a team member.
- A proactive problem solver and have good communication as well as project management skills to relay your findings and solutions across technical and non technical audiences.
- ETL and Orchestration Experience.
- Fivetran Alteryx or equivalent.
- DBT or equivalent.
- Logging and Monitoring: One or more of Splunk DataDog AWS Cloudwatch or equivalent.
- AWS Serverless: AWS API Gateway Lambda S3 SNS SQS SecretsManager.
- Other: Docker Kubernetes AWS ECR AWS Fargate AWS IAM.
Required Experience:
Senior IC