Senior Software Engineer
$142,800–$184,800 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Define and drive technical strategy for new products and platform capabilities, ranging from backend services and APIs to customer-facing UIs. Design and ship full-stack features end to end, working across backend, frontend, and mobile to deliver AI-powered products that solve real operational problems. Take ownership of technically complex, mission-critical areas, partnering with product, design, and customer-facing teams to translate ambiguous problems into clear technical plans. Build and scale systems behind AI-driven products, including data ingestion, APIs, and workflows that put intelligence into the hands of operators. Raise the bar for engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and technical mentorship while championing Samsara's cultural principles as the team scales globally.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of experience in software design and development, including building and operating production systems at scale
- Strong full-stack fundamentals
- Proficiency in modern languages and frameworks (Go, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, or similar)
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-team or cross-org projects from inception through rollout, including managing ambiguity, driving alignment, and delivering measurable impact
- Experience building AI-powered or data-driven products
- Strong communication skills and the ability to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders
- A track record of building: zero-to-one products, systems you left in a meaningfully better place, or hard problems you refused to let stay unsolved
- Relocation assistance will not be provided for this role
Desired Qualifications
- Experience shipping AI-powered features in production, whether that's LLM-based products, agentic workflows, recommendation systems, or other customer-facing AI
- Comfort with modern AI-augmented development workflows (Cursor, LLMs, etc.) to multiply your output and accelerate delivery
- Background working with real-world operational data (telematics, sensor data, work orders, inspections) or a strong interest in learning the domain
- A proven track record of mentoring senior engineers and influencing engineering culture, standards, and best practices beyond a single team
- Side projects, open-source contributions, or other signals of curiosity and drive outside the scope of your day job
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