Remote Position
[Remote] Senior Software Engineer II - Platform
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Samsara is hiring a Senior Software Engineer II for its Platform team. The role shapes the systems and product patterns behind the Samsara dashboard, builds AI-powered features across customer workflows and infrastructure, and scales the platform while mentoring and collaborating across teams.
Responsibilities
- Help shape the technical direction of the platform, including the full-stack systems, shared patterns, and AI-powered product experiences that power the Samsara dashboard
- Design and build end-to-end features that bring AI into real product workflows, spanning customer-facing experiences, backend services, and supporting infrastructure
- Scale the systems and foundations behind the web experience so they can support growth in product usage and AI adoption without sacrificing reliability, quality, or usability
- Standardize patterns and raise the technical bar through code reviews, design discussions, mentorship, and close collaboration with product, design, and peer engineering teams
- Partner with engineering and product leadership on high-leverage bets, make clear tradeoffs, and help build a team culture grounded in long-term thinking, inclusiveness, and shared success
- 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
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years building software with strong programming and design fundamentals
- 4+ years working on large-scale distributed systems
- 4+ years leading technical projects across multiple teams
- Experience building developer platforms, internal tooling, or CI/CD for a large engineering org (hundreds of engineers or more)
- You've shipped real work with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, custom agents) — not just tried them out
- Strong skills in Go, Python, TypeScript, or a similar language
- A track record of making engineers measurably faster — quicker builds, easier deploys, less toil, happier developers
- Comfort working in ambiguity and getting teams aligned without needing formal authority
Benefits
- Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff
- Ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance, subject to plan terms and conditions
- Performance-based bonus/variable pay
- Equity for eligible roles
- A flexible, employee-led remote model
- A professional development stipend
- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
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