Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness IoT data for actionable insights. We help improve the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of physical operations across industries like agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing.

As a Senior Engineer in the Infrastructure org, you will help evolve the cloud foundations behind every Samsara product. You will reduce systemic production risk and enable growth by making infrastructure safer to change, easier to operate, and more resilient and cost-efficient at scale. You will bring deep expertise in at least one infrastructure domain (compute and workload orchestration, networking, storage and stateful systems, or cloud control planes) and apply it across our multi-account, multi-region AWS environment. You will lead work such as modernizing compute and stateful infrastructure, strengthening capacity and failure isolation, and building standardized infrastructure-as-code workflows and reusable automation. You will partner with product engineering teams to turn recurring risks and manual operations into durable platforms and paved paths.

• 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 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 adopted across the organization.
• Clearly communicate architecture, trade-offs, risks, and migration plans to technical and organizational stakeholders.

• 6+ years of experience designing and building software, infrastructure, or distributed systems, including operating critical systems in production.
• Deep expertise in at least one of: compute and workload orchestration, networking, storage and stateful systems, or cloud infrastructure control planes.
• Strong software-engineering fundamentals in Go, Python, Java, or a similar language.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating infrastructure on a major public cloud platform; AWS experience is preferred.
• Experience using infrastructure as code, such as Terraform, to safely manage production infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of capacity management, failure domains, observability, rollout safety, and production recovery.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives across teams and through ambiguous problem spaces.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

• Designing and operating large-scale compute or container platforms such as ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, or similar orchestration systems.
• Designing and operating stateful distributed systems such as Kafka, OpenSearch, managed databases, caching, or large-scale storage platforms.
• Building internal infrastructure platforms, control planes, or self-service developer experiences adopted across multiple teams.
• Designing multi-account or multi-region cloud architectures with strong workload isolation and disaster recovery.
• Leading major infrastructure migrations while maintaining availability and controlling operational risk.
• Delivering measurable improvements in infrastructure capacity, cost efficiency, or developer self-service.

Our compensation program delivers above-market total compensation through a combination of base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity (for eligible roles) in a high-growth public company. We provide a flexible, employee-led remote model, a professional development stipend, comprehensive health and parental leave plans, and more.

We embrace a flexible working model. Our offices are open for those who prefer to work in-person and we also support remote work where it aligns with operational requirements. For certain positions, being close to one of our offices or within a specific geographic area is important; in such cases, the job description clearly indicates any working location requirements.

We welcome everyone regardless of background. All qualified applicants receive consideration 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. If you require reasonable accommodations during the recruiting process, please email accessibleinterviewing@samsara.com or click the provided link.