Staff Software Engineer - Platform and Infrastructure
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About the Position
Staff Software Engineer - Platform and Infrastructure
Location: Bengaluru, India
Work Type: Hybrid (2 days per week in the office)
Company: Samsara Technologies India Private Limited
Office Address: Block 2, 11th Floor, Gopalan Fortune City, Chinappa Layout, Mahadevapura, Bengaluru, Karnataka – 560048, India
About the Role
Samsara Technologies India Private Limited is seeking a Staff Engineer to join the Platform & Infrastructure organization. This role is pivotal in building foundational systems that drive software products, including areas such as Reporting/Automations/Enterprise capabilities and foundational infrastructure capabilities such as container orchestration/data storage/real-time data ingestion/GraphQL execution.
As a Staff Engineer at Samsara, you will:
- Drive technology choices, implement services, and establish architectural patterns that have a broad and lasting impact on Samsara's platform.
- Identify opportunities and initiate strategic conversations to influence the direction of platform technology and engineering culture.
- Architect, design, and develop software that enables Samsara to operate at scale.
- Lead teams in delivering products and capabilities that contribute to Samsara’s products and revenue.
- Deliver impact by solving the hardest technical problems and enabling products to reach the market quickly and successfully with high quality.
- Keep a platform-first approach while collaborating with our infrastructure and product teams to build products, tools, and solutions.
- Act as a multiplier for the team, elevating the impact and output of every team member.
- Contribute to Samsara’s engineering brand by representing Samsara in external-facing forums.
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.
Responsibilities
- Drive technology choices, implementing services, and/or establishing architectural patterns that have a broad and lasting impact on Samsara's platform.
- Identify opportunities and initiate strategic conversations to influence the direction of platform technology and engineering culture.
- Architect, design, and develop software that enables Samsara to operate at scale.
- Lead teams in delivering products and capabilities that contribute to Samsara’s products and revenue.
- Deliver impact by solving the hardest technical problems and enabling products to reach the market quickly and successfully with high quality.
- Keep a platform-first approach while collaborating with our infrastructure and product teams to build products, tools, and solutions.
- Act as a multiplier for the team, elevating the impact and output of every team member.
- Contribute to Samsara’s engineering brand by representing Samsara in external-facing forums.
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.
Requirements
- Educational Background: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience: 12+ years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm-related solutions with at least 4 of those years in an architect or leadership role.
- Skills:
- Stellar programming/coding fundamentals.
- 4+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems.
- 4+ years of experience leading cross-organization projects.
- Expertise working with web services at a massive scale deployed on Cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- An ideal candidate also has 15+ years of relevant industry experience in software development.
- Enjoys leading and mentoring engineers to think about systems - their life cycles, edge cases, and failure modes.
- Enjoys fostering collaboration among engineers with different focuses (frontend, mobile, firmware, vision, ML).
- Is an expert in writing high-quality, performant, and maintainable code in a modern programming language.
- Production experience working with Javascript and/or client-side code.
- Expertise working on large-scale enterprise software applications.
- Demonstrated ability to ship production-quality software in a dynamic environment.
- Expert-level knowledge of at-scale stream-processing decision engines.
We Offer
At Samsara, we build for the people who keep the global economy moving. 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 the foundations that enable long-term success: 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.
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