Staff Software Engineer - Platform and Infrastructure (India)

Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, which is a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations.
Backend
Staff Software Engineer
Hybrid
1,000 - 5,000 Employees
12+ years of experience
AI · Enterprise SaaS

Description For Staff Software Engineer - Platform and Infrastructure (India)

Samsara Technologies India Private Limited is looking for a Staff Engineer to join the Platform & Infrastructure organization, which is responsible for building foundational systems that drive software products. Examples include areas such as Reporting/Automations/Enterprise capabilities to support our rapidly growing footprint of customers and foundational infrastructure capabilities such as container orchestration/data storage/real-time data ingestion/GraphQL execution to power Samsara engineering.

As a Staff Engineer at Samsara, you will help us spearhead the technical direction for the organization, be a technical leader that brings fresh ideas and expertise to guide the team's technical design and architecture and enable increasingly complex features and customer use cases. You will work on specific projects critical to Samsara's needs alongside other highly-skilled Samsara engineers and push Samsara's technical capabilities forward.

This role is hybrid - 3 days per week in the office.

In this role, you will:

  • Drive technology choices, implementing services, and/or establishing architectural patterns that have a broad and lasting impact on Samsara's platform
  • Identify opportunities and initiate strategic conversations to influence the direction of platform technology and engineering culture
  • Architect, design, and develop software that enables Samsara to operate at scale
  • Lead teams in delivering products and capabilities that contribute to Samsara's products and revenue
  • Deliver impact by solving the hardest technical problems and enabling products to reach the market quickly and successfully with high quality
  • Keep a platform-first approach while collaborating with our infrastructure and product teams to build products, tools, and solutions
  • Act as a multiplier for the team, elevating the impact and output of every team member
  • Contribute to Samsara's engineering brand by representing Samsara in external-facing forums
  • 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 the role:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience
  • 12+ years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm-related solutions with at least 4 of those years in an architect or leadership role
  • Stellar programming/coding fundamentals
  • 4+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems
  • 4+ years of experience leading cross-organization projects
  • Expertise working with web services at a massive scale deployed on Cloud providers such as AWS, GCP or Azure

An ideal candidate also:

  • Has 15+ years of relevant industry experience in software development
  • Enjoys leading and mentoring engineers to think about systems - their life cycles, edge cases, and failure modes
  • Enjoys fostering collaboration among engineers with different focuses (frontend, mobile, firmware, vision, ML)
  • Is an expert in writing high-quality, performant, and maintainable code in a modern programming language
  • Production experience working with Javascript and/or client-side code
  • Expertise working on large-scale enterprise software applications
  • Demonstrated ability to ship production-quality software in a dynamic environment
  • Expert-level knowledge of at-scale stream-processing decision engines
Last updated 2 months ago

Responsibilities For Staff Software Engineer - Platform and Infrastructure (India)

  • Drive technology choices and establish architectural patterns
  • Identify opportunities and influence platform technology direction
  • Architect, design, and develop software for scale
  • Lead teams in delivering products and capabilities
  • Solve hard technical problems and enable quick product launches
  • Collaborate with infrastructure and product teams
  • Act as a multiplier for the team
  • Represent Samsara in external-facing forums
  • Champion Samsara's cultural principles

Requirements For Staff Software Engineer - Platform and Infrastructure (India)

Java
JavaScript
TypeScript
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience
  • 12+ years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm-related solutions
  • 4+ years in an architect or leadership role
  • Stellar programming/coding fundamentals
  • 4+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems
  • 4+ years of experience leading cross-organization projects
  • Expertise working with web services at a massive scale deployed on Cloud providers such as AWS, GCP or Azure

Benefits For Staff Software Engineer - Platform and Infrastructure (India)

401k
Dental Insurance
Medical Insurance
Vision Insurance
  • 401k
  • Dental Insurance
  • Medical Insurance
  • Vision Insurance

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