Sr. Software Engineer II, DevEx

Samsara is hiring a Senior Software Engineer II for its Developer Experience team. The role focuses on building AI-enabled CI/CD and software delivery systems, deployment safeguards, and observability that improve engineering throughput while maintaining production safety and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Help scale our in-house CI/CD systems to meet the needs of a rapidly more efficient engineering organization and increasing pull-request throughput
• Reduce tech debt using efficient AI workflows that would otherwise be cost prohibitive in a non-AI workflow
• Design and build deployment safeguards that protect production at scale, making use of AI to monitor and fix issues
• Build the observability, evaluation, and feedback systems used to improve our AI-driven automation
• Serve as a thought leader for using AI to increase engineering productivity while maintaining a high bar for safety, quality, and signal over AI-generated slop
• Redefine the outer loop of the SDLC by designing AI-native workflows that increase engineering throughput without compromising reliability
• Push the threshold of what is possible with AI by turning emerging capabilities into safe, observable, and production-ready engineering systems
• Partner with product engineering teams to reduce operational toil, and make safe, AI-enabled delivery practices easy to adopt across the company. Ensuring their specific team needs are met
• Help keep Samsara at the cutting edge of AI-assisted software development by experimenting boldly, learning quickly, and converting successful experiments into platforms used across the company

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience designing and building products in a software engineering team
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years of experience working on developer experience, CICD and/or platform engineering-focused teams
• Experience in building AI workflows, orchestration systems or other harnesses of AI
• Proven track record in architecting CICD systems, build and deploy platforms, and automated response workflows, Buildkite (or equivalent BYOC software)
• Proven experience working on large-scale enterprise software applications
• Experience in building and maintaining a large organization's Software Development Life Cycle (DevEx)
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or the like)
• Experience in implementing AI-driven automation across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to reduce developer friction, automate repetitive technical tasks, and accelerate time-to-delivery
• Routinely applies AI tools across your workflow
• Experienced at writing high-quality code (Go, Python, or equivalent) focused on infrastructure, deployment, and operations challenges
• Experienced orchestrating multiple AI agents en-mass to tackle complex (non one-off) tasks
• Strong leadership and direction setting skills. Visionary as a tech lead. Able to set a high standard for peers, and keep it
• Forward thinking about the capabilities AI, an advocate for AI usage
• Experience with building in-house CICD systems
• Experienced with building for FedRamp, StateRamp or other compliance requirements