Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

We are looking for engineers who have built and operated critical systems at significant scale, understand how infrastructure fails, and can use that experience to improve both our platforms and our engineering practices. You should apply if: You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software, firmware, and hardware you build will result in real-world impact, helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely. You are a life-long learner: We have ambitious goals. Every Samsarian has a growth mindset as we work with a wide range of technologies, challenges, and customers that push us to learn on the go. You believe customers are more than a number: Samsara engineers enjoy a rare closeness to the end user and you will have the opportunity to participate in customer interviews, collaborate with customer success and product managers, and use metrics to ensure our work is translating into better customer outcomes. You are a team player: Working on our Samsara Engineering teams requires a mix of independent effort and collaboration. Motivated by our mission, we’re all racing toward our connected operations vision, and we intend to win together. In this role, you will: 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 the 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 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 (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. Minimum requirements for this role. 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 An ideal candidate also has: 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. Total Rewards At Samsara, we build for the people who keep the global economy moving. We want owners, not passengers, which is why 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 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. If you’re ready to build for the long term and own the outcome, your journey starts here. Flexible Working At Samsara, we embrace a flexible working model that caters to the diverse needs of our teams. Our offices are open for those who prefer to work in-person and we also support remote work where it aligns with our operational requirements. For certain positions, being close to one of our offices or within a specific geographic area is important to facilitate collaboration, access to resources, or alignment with our service regions. In these cases, the job description will clearly indicate any working location requirements. Our goal is to ensure that all members of our team can contribute effectively, whether they are working on-site, in a hybrid model, or fully remotely. All offers of employment are contingent upon an individual’s ability to se