Samsara

Senior Software Engineer II – Developer Experience, Operational Excellence

Samsara

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: FloridaNew YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $154,700 - $208,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Design and build automated reliability and self-healing systems that protect production at scale.
  • Own and improve incident management tooling and on-call health.
  • Develop and evolve our observability infrastructure, including monitoring and alerting.
  • Contribute to AI-driven operational tooling that goes beyond triage.
  • Drive incident prevention by identifying systemic patterns and eliminating operational toil.
  • Partner directly with product engineering teams to diagnose reliability gaps.
  • Define and champion operational excellence best practices across engineering.
  • Champion and embed Samsara’s cultural principles as we scale globally.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience designing and building products in a software engineering team.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
  • 3+ years of experience in infrastructure and/or platform engineering-focused teams.
  • Expertise in Observability and reliability, operational metrics, and data analysis.
  • Proven track record in architecting monitoring frameworks, SLO platforms, and automated response workflows.
  • Proven experience working on large-scale enterprise software applications.
  • Experience in Developer Experience (DevEx) & Internal Portals.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or the like).
  • Experience in implementing AI-driven automation across the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
  • Familiarity with writing high-quality code (Go, Python, or equivalent) focused on infrastructure, deployment, and operations challenges.
  • Experience mentoring and supporting engineers in a technical lead capacity.
  • Proactive growth mindset, always looking at ways to improve the status quo.
Benefits
  • Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
  • Professional development stipend
  • Flexible working model that caters to diverse needs
  • Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff
  • Ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
observabilityreliabilityoperational metricsdata analysismonitoring frameworksSLO platformsautomated response workflowshigh-quality codeAI-driven automationinfrastructure
Soft Skills
proactive growth mindsetmentoringsupporting engineerschampioning operational excellencediagnosing reliability gaps
Certifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's Degree in Engineering