Data Engineer

Samsara is seeking a Data Engineer to join our Data team, comprising Data Scientists, Data Analysts, and Data Engineers. Our data engineers develop and maintain data pipelines integral to our analytics data model. As a Data Engineer, your primary responsibility will be designing and maintaining data pipelines, primarily utilizing SparkSQL and Pyspark, within our central data lake. These pipelines are crucial for ingesting and transforming source data from our IoT devices and software products into our core data model, facilitating statistical analysis, model training, and dashboard creation.

• Build and maintain highly reliable computed tables, incorporating data from various sources, including unstructured data like video and audio, Samsara sensor & product data, and customer metadata.
• Access, manipulate, and integrate external datasets with internal data.
• Deliver high-quality data with strong uptime and reliability requirements, including customer-facing data sets.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams such as Data Science & Analytics, AI/ML, and other Data Engineers to ensure high-quality data for diverse purposes from causal inference, model training, and dashboarding.

• BA / MS degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or a related discipline.
• 4+ years experience in a data engineering-focused role.
• Demonstrated experience in designing data models at scale.
• Proficiency in building ETL pipelines to handle large volumes of data.
• Experience with Spark-based data platforms.
• Strong command of at least one data orchestration tool (e.g Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect).
• Expertise in SQL, Python, and working with REST APIs.
• Familiarity with software engineering fundamentals and reading backend development code.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git/GitHub.

• Familiarity with time series data and late-arriving data.
• Knowledge of Databricks, Delta Lakes, and Dagster.
• Previous experience working in a public cloud (e.g AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Exposure working on a data model for a product’s first-party data.
• Exposure to complex data, including ML outputs and/or client-side signals.

Annual base salary range: $99,365—$167,000 USD. This role is also eligible for an initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff, and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance, subject to plan terms and conditions. Samsara provides a flexible, employee-led remote model, a professional development stipend, comprehensive health and parental leave plans, and more.

Apply through the Samsara careers page for this role. For accommodations, email accessibleinterviewing@samsara.com or click the accommodation link in the posting.