Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

About the Position

We are looking for a Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud Platform to join our team in a remote role based in London, United Kingdom. At Samsara, we are the pioneers of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, a platform that enables organizations to harness IoT data for actionable insights and improved operations. As a Senior Engineer in the Infrastructure org, you will help evolve the cloud foundations behind every Samsara product, aiming to reduce systemic production risk and enable continued growth.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate reliable cloud platforms, specializing in 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 for self-service provisioning, testing, progressive rollout, reconciliation, rollback, and drift prevention.
• Identify shared failure modes and build safeguards to 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.
• Clearly communicate architecture, trade-offs, risks, and migration plans to technical and organizational stakeholders.
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles as we scale globally and across new offices.

Requirements

• Minimum Requirements:

  • 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 the following: 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.

• Ideal Candidate:

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

We Offer

At Samsara, we build for the people who keep the global economy moving. Our rewards are designed to fuel high-impact builders. 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 meaningfully differentiate pay for our top performers, who have the opportunity to earn above-market compensation that can outpace the broader market over time.

Beyond compensation, we provide:

• A flexible, employee-led remote model.
• A professional development stipend.
• Comprehensive health and parental leave plans.
• And more.

About the Company

Samsara's Mission

Improve the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of the operations that power the global economy.

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, and Equipment Monitoring. 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.