Own the technical strategy across Fleet Safety: Define a coherent multi-year technical vision that aligns product needs with scalable architectures across video, telematics, and AI/ML workflows.
Lead architecture and systems design for cross-cutting, ambiguous problems: Drive end-to-end definition, design quality, and delivery for the highest-impact initiatives; own one or more critical components that enable fast-paced innovation while meeting safety and reliability expectations.
Advance AI/ML and Computer Vision in production: Translate research into robust customer-facing features—improving detection, classification, real-time feedback, and coaching workflows—with strong emphasis on system reliability, model lifecycle, and evaluation rigor.
Scale distributed systems and data platforms: Evolve backend services, streaming pipelines, storage, and indexing for reliability, observability, security, and cost efficiency—reducing operational toil and improving performance at scale.
Influence across teams to raise the engineering bar: Establish standards, guide difficult trade-offs, improve developer productivity, and ensure systems fit together cleanly to accelerate product delivery.
Mentor and grow engineers: Actively coach Staff-level engineers, institutionalize best practices, and create mechanisms (documentation, automation, design reviews) that scale your impact and foster a culture of ownership, rigor, and inclusion.
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
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering.
12+ years of experience as a software engineer building customer-facing applications, with at least 8 of those years in an architect or leadership role, and 6+ years of experience leading cross-organization projects.
Entrepreneurial experience with a track record of success for early-stage products.
Stellar programming/coding fundamentals.
Expertise in working on large-scale enterprise software applications.
Benefits
Full time employees receive a competitive total compensation package along with employee-led remote and flexible working, health benefits, and much, much more.
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