Senior Software Engineer II

Samsara

9h•CA$142,800 - CA$168,000•Remote

About The Position

The Diagnostics team at Samsara processes real-time signals from IoT devices in vehicles to help customers improve fleet safety, efficiency, and sustainability. The Vehicle Intelligence firmware team is a cross-functional product engineering team responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining solutions for fleet sustainability. They collaborate closely with product managers, customer support, other firmware teams, and full stack engineers. The technology stack includes buildkite, databricks, GraphQL, Golang, C++, Linux, CAN, Wifi, USB, and LTE. This role involves a mix of development and operational work focused on firmware releases and metrics. This role is open to candidates residing in Canada, excluding the Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, and Montreal metro areas. Relocation assistance will not be provided.

Requirements

8+ years of professional industry experience in software development.
Experiencing with large scale observability for production systems.
Experience with developing and shipping production code.
Experience with building and monitoring metrics during firmware rollout.
Experience triaging and assessing incoming customer and QA found issues.
Bachelors or masters in computer science, engineering or similar.

Nice To Haves

Experience with C/C++ or Golang is a plus.
Experience working on Linux based embedded systems on complex SOCs.
Experience working with SoC vendors, JDM partners and building a high quality product.
Experience working on Linux drivers and collaborating with system engineers to debug complex system issues.
Automotive OEM/Supplier or Telematics provider experience.
Basic knowledge on CAN-utils (Linux CAN).
Enjoys working at the intersection of hardware, software, networking, and data.
Thrives in an environment that requires rapid deployment and product iteration based on customer feedback.
Understands how observability ensures high quality releases.
Evaluates how decisions at each layer of the stack affect other layers for different products.
Builds production ready platforms with design for test mindset.

Responsibilities

Architect, develop, debug, and test customer facing firmware features written in C/C++ and Golang for Samsara’s cloud-connected hardware platform.
Build IOT products for the long term and support our 1.5+ million devices in the field.
Design and develop our internal observability discipline to ensure the health of our firmware rollouts.
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.