Senior Software Engineer - Route Execution

Samsara

168d • $126,140 - $252,500

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer on Samsara’s Route Execution team, you’ll build the systems that power route planning, optimization, dispatch, and real-time tracking for fleets across logistics, field services, and delivery. You’ll work across the stack to improve dispatcher tools, driver experiences, and scalable backend APIs that handle geospatial and real-time data at scale. You’ll partner with design, product, and mobile to ship reliable, performant features that customers use every day. We use Golang for our backend, Typescript and React for our web client, GraphQL to fetch data from our backend, and React Native for our mobile app. Direct experience with these technologies is not required.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of relevant industry experience in software development.
• Strong programming/coding fundamentals.
• Experience designing and architecting large, high-scale systems.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, with a demonstrated ability to manage technical discussions.
• An ability to estimate, communicate, and deliver upon project milestones with your team.

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated experience in routing, dispatch and navigation systems.
• Contributed heavily to driving significant value to their customers.
• Enjoys understanding our users and what would make their day to day processes easier to manage.
• Loves shipping features that are immediately used by our customers.
• Seeks to iterate on new products based on customer feedback.
• Proactive growth mindset and improve on status quo.

Responsibilities

• Core services for route creation, optimization, live tracking, and reporting with a 99.9%+ SLA.
• Web applications used by dispatchers to create, assign, and monitor routes in real time.
• APIs and integrations with TMS/ERP systems that process millions of route events.
• Driver-facing commercial navigation features in partnership with our mobile team.
• AI-assisted workflows like smart data import, contextual rerouting, and predictive alerts using geospatial signals.
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles as we scale globally and across new offices.

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package.
• Employee-led remote and flexible working.
• Health benefits.
• Samsara for Good charity fund.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees