Senior Software Engineer, API Platform

About the role:

Samsara is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the API Platform team. API Platform owns and evolves the infrastructure that all of Samsara’s services are built upon, from our GraphQL platform and central databases to Samsara’s shared caching and data subscription framework. Every single operation at Samsara goes through our systems in one way or another, and you will have the opportunity to work with data at massive scale - hundreds of millions of requests per day. You will play a key role in improving the scalability, robustness, and observability of our systems, as well as innovate on tooling to expedite service development across all development teams. Come help us make a major impact across every software team at Samsara.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software you build will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You want to build for scale: With over 2.3 million IoT devices deployed to our global customers, you will work on a range of new and mature technologies driving scalable innovation for customers across industries driving the world's physical operations.
• You are a life-long learner: We have ambitious goals. Every Samsarian has a growth mindset as we work with a wide range of technologies, challenges, and customers that push us to learn on the go.
• You believe customers are more than a number: Samsara engineers enjoy a rare closeness to the end user and you will have the opportunity to participate in customer interviews, collaborate with customer success and product managers, and use metrics to ensure our work is translating into better customer outcomes.
• You are a team player: Working on our Samsara Engineering teams requires a mix of independent effort and collaboration. Motivated by our mission, we’re all racing toward our connected operations vision, and we intend to win—together.

Click here to learn about what we value at Samsara. 

In this role, you will: 

• Build the platform to scale our service architecture by orders of magnitude
• Research and deeply understand the needs of our customers (both internal and external)
• Guide projects from concept, to ideation, to implementation, to feedback and improvements
• 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

Minimum requirements for the role:

• 4+ years of experience working professionally with modern development practices
• Strong programming/coding skills in a modern language such as Java, C#, Python, or Golang
• Experience designing and architecting robust, large-scale systems
• A bias for “the right way” versus “the quick way”
• A focus on and desire to mentor fellow engineers
• An ability to estimate, communicate, and deliver upon project milestones with your team
• Proactively identifying problems and opportunities, and suggesting solutions. This team doesn’t wait for instructions. We choose our own path.

An ideal candidate also has:

• Experience or interest in any or all of: GraphQL, gRPC, Redis, Kafka, Kinesis, ElasticSearch, any similar technologies
• Experience with technologies and techniques for robust service architectures: rate limiting, load shedding, circuit breakers, blue/green and canary deployments, security, performance testing, audit trails, service meshes, or any others
• Interest in continually improving team processes, backed by a strong experience on efficient, self-directed teams
• In-depth experience working with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure or GCP
• Adept at building and using observability tools, frameworks, and standard