Sr Software Engineer I

Samsara

8d•$113,645 - $191,000•Remote

About The Position

The Safety Triage & Insights team builds data-driven safety experiences that surface actionable insights, engage drivers directly, and help fleets focus resources where they matter most. We develop the systems, APIs, and customer-facing products that power safety event review, supervisor workflows, driver analytics, and AI-driven experiences across Samsara’s Safety organization. The team is deeply invested in AI, LLMs, and emerging agentic technologies, both in the products we build and in how we engineer them, enabling rapid iteration and highly personalized, insight-driven user experiences. As a Sr. Software Engineer I on the team, you will lead the design and evolution of systems that sit at the intersection of real-time data processing, AI-powered insights, and customer-facing product experiences. You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, ML, and platform teams to build scalable services, intelligent workflows, and next-generation AI capabilities that help organizations move beyond reactive incident review toward proactive, data-informed safety management. This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US.

Requirements

18 months+ of relevant software engineering experience building, shipping, and operating reliable customer-facing production systems.
Experience developing features or end-to-end solutions across backend services, APIs, and modern web applications.
Ability to independently own moderately complex projects or features within a release or two, with strong execution and follow-through.
Experience writing clean, efficient, maintainable code and reviewing peer code for correctness and clarity.
Ability to make thoughtful technical tradeoffs across performance, scalability, maintainability, and delivery speed.
Experience using metrics, logs, tests, or tracing to debug issues, validate releases, and improve reliability.
Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering and cross-functional partners.
Experience or demonstrated interest in AI-native development, including LLMs and workflow automation.
A growth mindset, strong product intuition, and excitement for learning new technologies and building impactful customer experiences

Nice To Haves

Experience building and scaling customer-facing AI/LLM-powered products in production environments.
Experience working across the stack with modern technologies such as Go, GraphQL, TypeScript, React, and AWS.
Familiarity with observability, rollout practices, and monitoring approaches that improve product reliability and operational excellence.
Experience operating in fast-paced, highly collaborative environments with distributed teams.

Responsibilities

Independently deliver well-scoped customer-facing features and platform capabilities from design and implementation through rollout and follow-through in production.
Build reliable services, APIs, and web experiences, improving existing systems while shipping new capabilities.
Contribute to AI-powered workflows and experiences using modern LLM tooling, including evaluation, iteration, and human-in-the-loop patterns.
Make thoughtful technical tradeoffs across speed, maintainability, scalability, and customer impact.
Collaborate across Engineering, Product, Design, ML, and platform teams to deliver cohesive customer experiences.
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.