Senior Software Engineer II, 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 Senior Software Engineer II will join the Developer Experience team to build AI-enabled CI/CD, deployment safeguards, observability systems, and autonomous software delivery workflows that improve engineering productivity while maintaining 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