Who we are
Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, which is a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations. At Samsara, we are helping improve the safety, efficiency and sustainability of the physical operations that power our global economy. Representing more than 40% of global GDP, these industries are the infrastructure of our planet, including agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing — and we are excited to help digitally transform their operations at scale.
Working at Samsara means you’ll help define the future of physical operations and be on a team that’s shaping an exciting array of product solutions, including Video-Based Safety, Vehicle Telematics, Apps and Driver Workflows, Equipment Monitoring, and Site Visibility. As part of a recently public company, you’ll have the autonomy and support to make an impact as we build for the long term.
About the role:
Samsara’s Fleet Safety team is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our growing team. As a Senior Staff Engineer at Samsara, you will be a senior technical leader who brings new ideas and expertise to guide the team’s technical architecture to enable novel features and customer use cases. You will leverage your experience with the rapidly evolving space of AI technology to create innovative new solutions to solve real-world problems in physical operations and save lives.
Samsara’s Fleet Safety team builds a comprehensive solution utilizing Samsara’s GPS Fleet Tracking and AI Dash Cam hardware products to improve driver safety using AI and data to create products that provide real-time driver feedback and streamline video-based coaching. Samsara customers depend on these features to create safety programs that dramatically improve driver safety, reward safe driving practices, and build trust by exonerating drivers in no-fault accidents.
This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US.
You should apply if:
- You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software, firmware, and hardware 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 millions of 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 workers that are keeping our economy running - drivers, mechanics, service technicians - 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.
- Own the technical strategy across Fleet Safety: Define a coherent multi-year technical vision that aligns product needs with scalable architectures across video, telematics, and AI/ML workflows.
- Lead architecture and systems design for cross-cutting, ambiguous problems: Drive end-to-end definition, design quality, and delivery for the highest-impact initiatives; own one or more critical components that enable fast-paced innovation while meeting safety and reliability expectations.
- Advance AI/ML and Computer Vision in production: Translate research into robust customer-facing features—improving detection, classification, real-time feedback, and coaching workflows—with strong emphasis on system reliability, model lifecycle, and evaluation rigor.
- Scale distributed systems and data platforms: Evolve backend services, streaming pipelines, storage, and indexing for reliability, observability, security, and cost efficiency—reducing operational toil and improving performance at scale.
- Influence across teams to raise the engineering bar: Establish standards, guide difficult trade-offs, improve developer productivity, and ensure systems fit together cleanly to accelerate product delivery.
- Mentor and grow engineers: Actively coach Staff-level engineers, institutionalize best practices, and create mechanisms (documentation, automation, design reviews) that scale your impact and foster a culture of ownership, rigor, and inclusion.
- 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:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering.
- 12+ years of experience as a software engineer building customer-facing applications, with at least 8 of those years in an architect or leadership role, and 6+ years of experience leading cross-organization projects.
- Entrepreneurial experience with a track record of success for early-stage products.
- Stellar programming/coding fundamentals.
- Expertise in working on large-scale enterprise software applications.
An ideal candidate also has:
- Master's Degree or PhD in Computer Science/Engineering.
- Experience in applying Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence to real-world applications.
- Technical mastery in Go, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, C/C++, or other similar languages.
Samsara’s Compensation Philosophy: Samsara’s compensation program is designed to deliver Total Direct Compensation (based on role, level, and geography) that is at or above market. We do this through our base salary + bonus/variable + restricted stock unit awards (RSUs) for eligible roles. For eligible roles, a new hire RSU award may be awarded at the time of hire, and additional RSU refresh grants may be awarded annually.
We pay for performance, and top performers in eligible roles may receive above-market equity refresh awards which allow employees to achieve higher market.
At Samsara, we welcome everyone regardless of their background. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, and other characteristics protected by law. We depend on the unique approaches of our team members to help us solve complex problems and want to ensure that Samsara is a place where people from all backgrounds can make an impact.
Benefits
Full time employees receive a competitive total compensation package along with employee-led remote and flexible working, health benefits, and much, much more. Take a look at our Benefits site to learn more.
Accommodations
Samsara is an inclusive work environment, and we are committed to ensuring equal opportunity in employment for qualified persons with disabilities. Please email [email protected] or click here if you require any reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process.
Flexible Working
At Samsara, we embrace a flexible working model that caters to the diverse needs of our teams. Our offices are open for those who prefer to work in-person and we also support remote work where it aligns with our operational requirements. For certain positions, being close to one of our offices or within a specific geographic area is important to facilitate collaboration, access to resources, or alignment with our service regions. In these cases, the job description will clearly indicate any working location requirements. Our goal is to ensure that all members of our team can contribute effectively, whether they are working on-site, in a hybrid model, or fully remotely. All offers of employment are contingent upon an individual’s ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the company and in the specified work location, if applicable.
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What We Do
Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, which is a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations. With tens of thousands of customers across North America and Europe, Samsara is a proud technology partner to the people who keep our global economy running, including the world’s leading organizations across construction, transportation and warehousing, field services, manufacturing, retail, logistics, and public sector. The company’s mission is to increase the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of the operations that power the global economy.
Why Work With Us
We empower companies to operate more efficiently in a dynamic world, keep their employees and customers safe 24/7, and meet the growing urgency for sustainability. We get to create and support leading-edge technologies like computer vision, edge computing, and data analytics to address vexing challenges often ignored by the tech industry.
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