Senior Software Engineer I/II - Infrastructure

The role

You will evolve cloud foundations to reduce production risk and enable growth. You will design, build, and operate reliable cloud platforms and lead technical initiatives for infrastructure systems.

What you will do

• Set technical direction for major infrastructure systems and lead ambiguous initiatives.
• Design, build, and operate reliable cloud platforms.
• Improve scalability, capacity management, isolation, recovery, and cost efficiency of production infrastructure.
• Build standardized infrastructure-as-code workflows and reusable automation.
• Identify shared failure modes and build safeguards.
• Contribute to multi-account, multi-region, and isolated AWS architectures.
• Participate in operational ownership and incident response.
• Mentor engineers and establish design patterns.
• Communicate architecture, trade-offs, risks, and migration plans to stakeholders.
• Embed cultural principles as the company scales.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of experience designing and building software, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Experience operating critical systems in production.
• Deep expertise in at least one of: compute and workload orchestration, networking, storage and stateful systems, or cloud infrastructure control planes.
• Strong software-engineering fundamentals in Go, Python, Java, or a similar language.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating infrastructure on a major public cloud platform.
• Experience using infrastructure as code, such as Terraform.
• Strong understanding of capacity management, failure domains, observability, rollout safety, and production recovery.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives across teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• AWS experience
• Designing and operating large-scale compute or container platforms such as ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, or similar orchestration systems.
• Designing and operating stateful distributed systems such as Kafka, OpenSearch, managed databases, caching, or large-scale storage platforms.
• Building internal infrastructure platforms, control planes, or self-service developer experiences.
• Designing multi-account or multi-region cloud architectures with strong workload isolation and disaster recovery.
• Leading major infrastructure migrations while maintaining availability and controlling operational risk.
• Delivering measurable improvements in infrastructure capacity, cost efficiency, or developer self-service.

Benefits

• Base salary
• Performance-based bonus/variable pay
• Equity (for eligible roles)
• Flexible, employee-led remote model
• Professional development stipend
• Comprehensive health and parental leave plans

Before you apply

• All offers of employment are contingent upon an individual’s ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work in the specified work location.

About the company

Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, a platform that enables organizations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data. The company helps improve the safety, efficiency and sustainability of physical operations.