Staff Software Engineer

Samsara is a pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, helping organizations that depend on physical operations use IoT data to improve safety, efficiency, and sustainability. The Staff Software Engineer will define technical strategy, build and scale full-stack and AI-powered products, translate ambiguous operational problems into technical plans, and provide technical leadership through mentorship and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of technically complex, mission-critical areas and run with them. We want to point you in a direction and show up to the demo meeting impressed, not spend our weeks managing the details
• Define and drive technical strategy for new products and platform capabilities, from backend services and APIs to the customer-facing UI
• Design and ship full-stack features end to end. You'll work across backend, frontend, and potentially mobile to deliver AI-powered products that solve real operational problems
• Partner with product, design, and customer-facing teams to translate ambiguous, real-world problems into clear technical plans and measurable outcomes
• Build and scale the systems behind AI-driven products, including data ingestion, APIs, and the workflows that put intelligence into the hands of operators
• Raise the bar for the engineers around you through code reviews, design reviews, technical mentorship, and by setting a standard for quality, velocity, and craft
• 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:

• This role is remote and open to candidates residing in the US. Relocation assistance will not be provided for this role
• 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. You're comfortable working across backend services, APIs, and frontend (web or mobile) to ship complete products
• 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. You don't need to train models, but you know how to take AI capabilities and turn them into products customers love
• 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
• All offers of employment are contingent upon an individual's ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the company and in the specified work location, if applicable
• 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