Staff Software Engineer, DevEx

Samsara is the 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 set technical direction for the Developer Experience team, building developer tooling, CI/CD infrastructure, and AI coding agents while scaling reliable platforms across the engineering organization.

Responsibilities:

• Help shape the technical direction of our developer platform — CI/CD, build systems, and the AI agents engineers interact with daily
• Design and build AI agents that take real work off engineers' plates: coding, code review, test generation, release automation, and incident response
• Scale our tooling so it can keep up as the engineering org grows, without sacrificing reliability or developer happiness
• Standardize tools and practices so good ideas spread instead of getting reinvented on every team
• Raise the technical bar through code reviews, design discussions, and mentorship
• Partner with engineering leadership on the bets worth making, and be honest about tradeoffs
• Represent Samsara externally when it makes sense — talks, open source, helping us become a place great engineers want to work
• Live out our cultural principles: Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, and Win as a Team

Requirements:

• • You've actually built things with AI coding agents — not just used them. You have opinions about what works, what doesn't, and where this is all heading
• • You like work where a small change you make ripples out to help a lot of people
• • You care about what Samsara does. The software we build helps keep grocery shelves stocked, lights on, and workers safe on the job
• • You're genuinely curious and like learning new things. The tech landscape here moves quickly and we're all figuring it out together
• • You think of engineers as real people, not tickets. You're happy to sit with them, watch how they work, and dig into the small frustrations that add up
• • You work well with others. We move faster when we move together
• • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• • 8+ years building software, with at least 2 years in an architect or technical leadership role
• • Strong programming and design fundamentals
• • 4+ years working on large-scale distributed systems
• • 4+ years leading technical projects across multiple teams
• • Experience building developer platforms, internal tooling, or CI/CD for a large engineering org (hundreds of engineers or more)
• • You've shipped real work with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, custom agents) — not just tried them out
• • Strong skills in Go, Python, TypeScript, or a similar language
• • A track record of making engineers measurably faster — quicker builds, easier deploys, less toil, happier developers
• • Comfort working in ambiguity and getting teams aligned without needing formal authority