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Senior Software Engineer I/II - Infrastructure

Samsara· Platform
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RemoteCA$142.8k - CA$184.8kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior engineer in the Infrastructure organization to evolve Samsara's cloud foundations, reduce production risk, and enable scalable, cost-efficient operations across multi-account/multi-region AWS environments. Focus areas include compute/workload orchestration, networking, storage/stateful systems, and cloud control planes with IaC and automation.

Responsibilities

  • Set technical direction for major infrastructure systems and lead ambiguous initiatives spanning multiple teams.
  • 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 across the organization.
  • Clearly communicate architecture, trade-offs, risks, and migration plans to technical and organizational stakeholders.
  • Champion Samsara’s cultural principles as we scale globally and across new offices.

Qualifications

  • 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: 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.

Skills

Required:Compute and workload orchestrationNetworkingStorage and stateful systemsCloud infrastructure control planesGo, Python, Java

Benefits

  • Total Rewards including base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity (for eligible roles)
  • Flexible, employee-led remote model
  • Professional development stipend
  • Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
Last updated Oct 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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