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Software Engineer - Data Platform

Samsara· Platform
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Remote$113.6k - $191kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Software Engineer to join Samsara's Data Platform team, building and operating the core analytical platform and data lakehouse infrastructure for ingesting, processing, cataloging, and accessing petabytes of data across the company.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate high-scale data ingestion and replication systems from production data stores 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 reliability, observability, scalability, security, and developer experience of Spark and Databricks-based data processing platform.
  • Develop internal libraries, APIs, frameworks, and tooling in Go and Python to help teams move, process, discover, and access data safely and efficiently.
  • 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 to deliver durable, scalable solutions.
  • Shape Samsara’s long-term data infrastructure roadmap, including support for AI, privacy, security, global scale, and customer-facing data products.
  • Champion Samsara’s cultural principles in scale and global delivery.

Qualifications

  • 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 (S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, Lambda, or similar).
  • Experience designing, building, and operating reliable systems with ownership of scalability, observability, security, and operational excellence.
  • Proficiency in at least one production programming language (Go, Python, Scala, or Java).
  • Ability to collaborate with cross-functional partners (software engineers, data scientists, analysts, security, product).

Skills

Required:Apache SparkAWS (S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, Lambda)GoPython

Benefits

  • Annual base salary: $113,645—$191,000 USD.
  • RSU grant with no vesting cliff and ongoing refresh opportunities, subject to plan terms.
  • Flexible, employee-led remote model; health and parental leave plans; professional development stipend.
  • Total rewards including base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity for eligible roles.
Last updated Oct 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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