Staff Software Engineer, Maps Services
About The Position
Samsara is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Maps team. This role will focus on building and maintaining the shared geospatial platform that is critical to nearly all Samsara products. The team sources, ingests, enriches, and serves map data, including road networks, points of interest, addresses, and boundaries. The goal is to provide accurate, reliable, and easy-to-use data and APIs to product teams, enabling them to build location-aware experiences more efficiently. The Staff Software Engineer will help set the technical direction for this platform, working across the geospatial stack from data pipelines to API creation. This is a remote position open to candidates based in the US.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years building software, with at least 2 years in an architect or technical leadership role
- Strong programming and design fundamentals
- 4+ years working on large-scale distributed systems
- 4+ years leading technical projects across multiple teams
Nice To Haves
- Experience with GIS technologies and spatial analysis, including PostGIS, spatial SQL, GeoPandas/Shapely, QGIS, and geospatial data validation
- Familiarity with geospatial data formats and open mapping ecosystems, including GeoParquet, OpenStreetMap (OSM), and OSM PBF; experience ingesting, transforming, validating, or serving these datasets
- Comfort working in ambiguity and getting teams aligned without needing formal authority
Responsibilities
- Shape the technical direction of the Maps teams
- Build geospatial systems and integrations that support foundational features across most Samsara products.
- Scale our offerings to continue to support storage, query and computational load of the real-time features dependent on them
- Consolidate existing team-specific geospatial solutions into scalable platform-wide offerings.
- Build agentic solutions that allow our customers to self-serve the data they want to see how they want to see it.
- Raise the technical bar through code reviews, design discussions, and mentorship
- Partner with engineering leadership on the bets worth making, and be honest about tradeoffs
- Represent Samsara externally when it makes sense — talks, open source, community engagement with the mapping/geospatial ecosystem
- Live out our cultural principles: Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, and Win as a Team
Benefits
- Flexible working model
- Professional development stipend
- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
- Above-market total compensation through a combination of base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity (for eligible roles)
- Meaningful differentiation of pay for top performers
- Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff, and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
