Staff Software Engineer - TimeSeries

Samsara • San Francisco, CA

3h • Remote

About The Position

Samsara is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our TimeSeries team. As an engineer on the team, your goal will be to continually improve the reliability, performance, and scalability of our in-house time-series data store and event streaming framework. You will also identify and add new features to our systems. You will have an opportunity to work closely with other teams who use the systems you build & maintain, collecting immediate feedback to continuously improve this infrastructure. We are on a mission to scale our systems to support our rapidly growing customer base, and we’d love for you to be a part of it.
This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm-related solutions with at least 2 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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working on backend-focused teams.
• Experience working on large-scale enterprise software applications.
• Enjoys thinking about systems - their life cycles, edge cases, interactions, and failure modes.
• Enjoys working collaboratively with developers of different focuses (such as frontend, mobile, firmware, ML/computer vision.

Responsibilities

• Develop and scale microservices handling gigabytes/sec of streaming data.
• Identify and add new features to our in-house time-series data store and event streaming framework.
• Partner with product and firmware teams to understand their data needs and build solutions to support them.
• Build a great user experience for our internal customers using this infrastructure.
• 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.

Benefits

• Full time employees receive a competitive total compensation package along with employee-led remote and flexible working, health benefits, and much, much more.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level