Staff Software Engineer - Platform
Staff Software Engineer - Platform
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About the role:
We are the Platform team responsible for building foundational systems that drive the Samsara software products. Examples include Alerts Workflows Notifications Reports User Management Roles and Permissions Geo Services Billing and Invoice etc. We are looking for a Staff Engineer to help us spearhead the technical direction for the team. As a Staff Engineer at Samsara you will be a technical leader that brings fresh ideas and expertise to guide the teams technical design and architecture and enable increasingly complex features and customer use cases. You will work on specific projects critical to Samsaras needs alongside other highlyskilled Samsara engineers and push Samsaras technical capabilities forward.
This is a remote position open to candidates based in Poland and UK.
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.
Click here to learn more about Samsaras cultural philosophy.
In this role you will:
- Drive technology choices implementing services and/or establishing architectural patterns that have a broad and lasting impact on Samsaras platform.
- Identify opportunities and initiate strategic conversations to influence the direction of platform technology and engineering culture
- Architect design and develop software that enables Samsara to operate at scale
- Lead teams in delivering products and capabilities that contribute to Samsaras products and revenue.
- Deliver impact by solving the hardest technical problems and enabling products to reach the market quickly and successfully with high quality.
- Keep a platform first approach while collaborating with our infrastructure and product teams to build products tools and solutions.
- Act as a multiplier for the team elevating the impact and output of every team member
- Contribute to Samsaras engineering brand by representing Samsara in externalfacing forums
- 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:
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience
- 8 years of experience in software design development and algorithm related solutions with at least 2 of those years in an architect or leadership role
- Stellar programming/coding fundamentals
- 4 year of experience building large scale distributed systems
- 4 years experience leading crossorganization projects
An ideal candidate also has:
- Mastery in data modeling and fullstack application architecture at a massive scale
- Programming mastery in Go Python JavaScript TypeScript C/C or other similar languages
- Expertise working on largescale enterprise software applications
- Demonstrated ability to ship productionquality software in a dynamic environment
- Expert level knowledge of atscale stream processing decision engines
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
