Senior Software Engineer II - Agent Foundations

Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, helping organizations harness IoT data to improve their operations. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build a core platform for multi-agent orchestration, enabling intelligent automation across the company.

Responsibilities:

• Build core infrastructure for multi-agent orchestration, including task planning, coordination, execution, and recovery
• Define and implement platform primitives and abstractions that enable internal teams to build and deploy new agents
• Design reliable backend services and APIs for agent discovery, state management, scheduling, and observability
• Architect systems to support scale, resilience, and long-running workflows across multiple concurrent agents
• Collaborate with internal teams building agents to refine APIs, tooling, and operational feedback loops
• Drive technical decisions in a high-ambiguity, early-stage environment where requirements evolve rapidly
• Own systems end to end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production operation
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s 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

Requirements:

• 4+ years of Software Engineering experience
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building production systems
• Senior-level experience with high-scale backend or distributed systems
• Proficiency in Python
• Strong system design skills and production reliability mindset
• Comfortable working across the stack as needed
• Ability to operate in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
• Experience with Go
• Experience with agentic or autonomous systems, orchestration platforms, workflow engines, or automation infrastructure
• Familiarity with observability tooling, distributed tracing, and event-driven systems
• Experience designing APIs and internal tooling used by other engineering teams