Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

About the role

As a Senior Engineer in the Infrastructure organization, you will evolve the cloud foundations behind every Samsara product. Your goal is to reduce systemic production risk and enable growth by making infrastructure safer to change, easier to operate, and more resilient and cost-efficient at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate reliable cloud platforms, bringing depth in one or more areas such as compute, networking, storage, stateful systems, or infrastructure control planes.
• Improve the scalability, capacity management, isolation, recovery, and cost efficiency of critical production infrastructure.
• Build standardized infrastructure-as-code workflows and reusable automation that support self-service provisioning, testing, progressive rollout, reconciliation, rollback, and drift prevention.
• Identify shared failure modes and build safeguards that prevent localized failures from escalating into broad customer impact.
• Contribute to multi-account, multi-region, and isolated AWS architectures, including regulated environments such as GovCloud.
• Participate in operational ownership and incident response, using incidents and near misses to drive durable architectural improvements.
• Mentor engineers, raise the quality of infrastructure design and operational judgment, and establish patterns that can be adopted across the organization.

Required skills

• Distributed systems
• Go
• Python
• Java
• AWS
• Infrastructure as Code
• Terraform
• Capacity management
• Observability

Nice to have

• ECS
• EKS
• Kubernetes
• Kafka
• OpenSearch
• Managed databases

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

• Professional development stipend
• Health insurance
• Parental leave

About the Company

Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, 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.