Software Engineer - Data Platform

Samsara is looking for a Software Engineer to join the Data Platform team, which owns and develops the core analytical platform across Samsara. This team builds and maintains the infrastructure that powers Samsara's data lake, distributed compute platform, and the systems that move data from production data stores into the lakehouse. As a Software Engineer on Data Platform, you will design, build, and operate reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure for ingesting, processing, cataloging, and accessing petabytes of data. This is a specialized software engineering role focused on data infrastructure, not an analytics or business data engineering role.

• Design, build, and operate high-scale data ingestion and replication systems from production data stores (RDS, DynamoDB, internal APIs, event-driven systems) into the data lakehouse.
• Build and maintain reliable, scalable, and modern data platform infrastructure capable of handling petabytes of data across analytics, AI, product, and operational use cases.
• Improve the reliability, observability, scalability, security, and developer experience of Samsara's Spark and Databricks-based data processing platform.
• Develop internal libraries, APIs, frameworks, and tooling in languages such as Go and Python.
• Work on foundational data lake and lakehouse technologies, including Delta Lake on S3, data catalogs, metadata services, orchestration systems, and platform automation.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, product engineering, data science, analytics, security, and data engineering teams.
• Stay connected to modern data platform technologies and help shape Samsara's long-term data infrastructure roadmap, including support for AI, privacy, security, global scale, and customer-facing data products.

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience in production environments.
• 4+ years of experience building or maintaining large-scale production data infrastructure, data platforms, distributed systems, or data lake systems.
• Strong experience with Apache Spark or similar distributed data processing systems.
• Experience operating production infrastructure in AWS, including S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, Lambda, or similar.
• Experience designing, building, and operating reliable systems with strong ownership of scalability, observability, security, and operational excellence.
• Proficiency in at least one production programming language such as Go, Python, Scala, or Java.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners.

• Experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, or similar lakehouse technologies such as Iceberg or Hudi.
• Experience building data replication or ingestion systems from OLTP data stores into a data lake or lakehouse.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Familiarity with data catalogs, metadata systems, and data discovery tools such as Unity Catalog, Hive Metastore, DataHub, or Amundsen.
• Experience with orchestration systems such as Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect.
• Experience with streaming data, event-driven architectures, or systems that handle late-arriving or mutable data.
• Familiarity with containerization or orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or Fargate.
• Experience building internal platforms, libraries, or developer tooling used by other engineering teams.

Annual base salary range: $106,675—$138,050 CAD. This role is also eligible for an initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff, and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance. Samsara offers a flexible, employee-led remote model, a professional development stipend, comprehensive health and parental leave plans, and more. Relocation assistance will not be provided for this role.