Senior Software Engineer II Route Planning

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 05-11-2025

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About the role:

Are you interested in building solutions that help our customers deliver their cargo safely efficiently and save fleet costs in the process If so the Route Planning team might be the right fit for you.
We are a 0-1 team within Samsara that is actively building smart route planning solutions that model our customers real world operations such as delivering to hard to reach locations on busy urban streets maximize their fleet capacity by recommending the right vehicles to use drive familiar routes or plan for those surprise deliveries all the while staying compliant with the ever changing rules of commercial navigation

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US and Canada. Relocation assistance will not be provided for this role

In this role you will:

Own the design and implementation of backend services that effortlessly scale no matter size of the fleet.
Work with the product manager and our UX designer closely to design and build intuitive UI interfaces that makes the route planners job more efficient.
Partner with the engineering manager and advocate for technical excellence on the team.
Navigate tradeoffs between moving fast and building for the long term using customer impact as the north star.
Act as a simplifier that ensures our solutions are built to serve our diverse customer base.
Communicate your work to not just engineering audiences but also our sales partners to maintain a tight feedback loop.
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 or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience as a software engineer.
Demonstrated ability executing in ambiguous environments and delivering customer value.
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.

An ideal candidate also has:

Proven experience shaping and improving routing and navigation products.
A passion for mentoring and helping junior engineers grow.
A track record of thriving in 01 teams and scaling them through the poststartup phase.
Experience operating as a tech lead or in a similar technical role directly impacting output of other engineers.
The ability and willingness to engage directly with customers when needed

Required Experience:

Senior IC

About the role:Are you interested in building solutions that help our customers deliver their cargo safely efficiently and save fleet costs in the process If so the Route Planning team might be the right fit for you.We are a 0-1 team within Samsara that is actively building smart route planning solu...

About the role:

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US and Canada. Relocation assistance will not be provided for this role

In this role you will:

Own the design and implementation of backend services that effortlessly scale no matter size of the fleet.
Work with the product manager and our UX designer closely to design and build intuitive UI interfaces that makes the route planners job more efficient.
Partner with the engineering manager and advocate for technical excellence on the team.
Navigate tradeoffs between moving fast and building for the long term using customer impact as the north star.
Act as a simplifier that ensures our solutions are built to serve our diverse customer base.
Communicate your work to not just engineering audiences but also our sales partners to maintain a tight feedback loop.
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 or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience as a software engineer.
Demonstrated ability executing in ambiguous environments and delivering customer value.
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.

An ideal candidate also has:

Proven experience shaping and improving routing and navigation products.
A passion for mentoring and helping junior engineers grow.
A track record of thriving in 01 teams and scaling them through the poststartup phase.
Experience operating as a tech lead or in a similar technical role directly impacting output of other engineers.
The ability and willingness to engage directly with customers when needed

Required Experience:

Senior IC

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About Company

Samsara

Publicly traded company [NYSE: IOT] offering a single platform for fleet operations at scale. Products include real-time GPS, ELD, AI-powered dash cams, telematics, maintenance, routing, & driver app. Recognized by the Forbes Cloud 100.

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