Senior Software Engineer II - Platform

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 Platform team to shape full-stack systems, shared product patterns, and AI-powered experiences for the Samsara dashboard while scaling reliable infrastructure and providing technical leadership across teams.

Responsibilities:

• Help shape the technical direction of the platform, including the full-stack systems, shared patterns, and AI-powered product experiences that power the Samsara dashboard
• Design and build end-to-end features that bring AI into real product workflows, spanning customer-facing experiences, backend services, and supporting infrastructure
• Scale the systems and foundations behind the web experience so they can support growth in product usage and AI adoption without sacrificing reliability, quality, or usability
• Standardize patterns and raise the technical bar through code reviews, design discussions, mentorship, and close collaboration with product, design, and peer engineering teams
• Partner with engineering and product leadership on high-leverage bets, make clear tradeoffs, and help build a team culture grounded in long-term thinking, inclusiveness, and shared success
• 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:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years building software with 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