Samsara

Senior Software Engineer – Agent Foundations

Samsara

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $180,200 - $212,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Build core infrastructure for multi-agent orchestration, including task planning, coordination, execution, and recovery
  • Define and implement platform primitives and abstractions that enable internal teams to build and deploy new agents
  • Design reliable backend services and APIs for agent discovery, state management, scheduling, and observability
  • Architect systems to support scale, resilience, and long-running workflows across multiple concurrent agents
  • Collaborate with internal teams building agents to refine APIs, tooling, and operational feedback loops
  • Drive technical decisions in a high-ambiguity, early-stage environment where requirements evolve rapidly
  • Own systems end to end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production operation
  • 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

Requirements

  • 4+ years of Software Engineering experience
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building production systems
  • Senior-level experience with high-scale backend or distributed systems
  • Proficiency in Python
  • Strong system design skills and production reliability mindset
  • Comfortable working across the stack as needed
  • Ability to operate in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
  • Experience with Go
  • Experience with agentic or autonomous systems, orchestration platforms, workflow engines, or automation infrastructure
  • Familiarity with observability tooling, distributed tracing, and event-driven systems
  • Experience designing APIs and internal tooling used by other engineering teams
Benefits
  • Full time employees receive a competitive total compensation package along with employee-led remote and flexible working, health benefits, and much, much more.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonGosystem designbackend servicesAPIstask planningorchestrationdistributed systemsproduction systemsautomation infrastructure
Soft Skills
collaborationtechnical decision-makingadaptabilitycustomer focusgrowth mindsetinclusivityteamworkoperational feedbackproblem-solvingcommunication