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Sr. Software Engineer II, DevEx

Samsara· Platform
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Hybrid (Remote - CA)$154.2k - $260kfull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer II on the Developer Experience team, building AI-enabled outer-loop SDLC automation, AI-assisted CI/CD workflows, and scalable deployment safeguards to improve engineering productivity with safety and observability.

Responsibilities

  • Help scale our in-house CI/CD systems to meet the needs of a rapidly more efficient engineering organization and increasing pull-request throughput.
  • Reduce tech debt using efficient AI workflows that would otherwise be cost prohibitive in a non-AI workflow.
  • Design and build deployment safeguards that protect production at scale, making use of AI to monitor and fix issues.
  • Build the observability, evaluation, and feedback systems used to improve our AI-driven automation.
  • Serve as a thought leader for using AI to increase engineering productivity while maintaining a high bar for safety, quality, and signal over AI-generated slop.
  • Redefine the outer loop of the SDLC by designing AI-native workflows that increase engineering throughput without compromising reliability.
  • Push the threshold of what is possible with AI by turning emerging capabilities into safe, observable, and production-ready engineering systems.
  • Partner with product engineering teams to reduce operational toil, and make safe, AI-enabled delivery practices easy to adopt across the company.
  • Help keep Samsara at the cutting edge of AI-assisted software development by experimenting boldly, learning quickly, and converting successful experiments into platforms used across the company.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience designing and building products in a software engineering team
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience
  • 3+ years of experience working on developer experience, CICD and/or platform engineering-focused teams
  • Experience in building AI workflows, orchestration systems or other harnesses of AI
  • Proven track record in architecting CICD systems, build and deploy platforms, and automated response workflows, Buildkite (or equivalent BYOC software)
  • Proven experience working on large-scale enterprise software applications
  • Experience in building and maintaining a large organization's Software Development Life Cycle (DevEx)
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or the like)
  • Experience in implementing AI-driven automation across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to reduce developer friction, automate repetitive technical tasks, and accelerate time-to-delivery. Routinely applies AI tools across your workflow
  • Experienced at writing high-quality code (Go, Python, or equivalent) focused on infrastructure, deployment, and operations challenges
  • Experienced orchestrating multiple AI agents en-mass to tackle complex (non one-off) tasks.
  • Strong leadership and direction setting skills. Visionary as a tech lead. Able to set a high standard for peers, and keep it.

Skills

Required:CI/CD design and implementationPython

Benefits

  • Flexible, employee-led remote model
  • Professional development stipend
  • Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
  • Equity and competitive total rewards
  • RSU grant with no vesting cliff and ongoing refresh opportunities (subject to plan terms)
  • Base salary and potential performance-based bonus/variable pay
Last updated Oct 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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