Senior Data Engineer II

The role

The Senior Data Engineer II will develop and maintain end-to-end data pipelines and backend ingestion workflows. You will manage data APIs, architect Spark-driven workflows, and build intelligent tooling like MCP servers and AI agents.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain end-to-end data pipelines and backend ingestion workflows
• Participate in the build of Samsara's Data Platform
• Work with data from sources including ERP, CRM, Product, Order Flow, and Support ticket data
• Manage critical data pipelines to enable growth initiatives and advanced analytics
• Facilitate data integration and transformation between applications
• Develop and improve data architecture, quality, monitoring, observability, and availability
• Write data transformations in SQL/Python
• Design, build, and operate large-scale Spark and PySpark workflows
• Optimize Spark job performance
• Design, build, and manage data APIs in python using frameworks such as FastAPI

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, data engineering, data science, information technology, or an equivalent engineering program
• 10+ years of work experience as a Software Engineer with data focus or as Data Engineer
• 8+ years of experience building and maintaining large-scale, production-grade end-to-end data pipelines, including Data Modeling
• 5+ years of hands-on Spark / PySpark in a production environment, including job optimization and performance tuning
• 3+ years of hands-on experience developing and managing APIs, preferably in python
• Strong programming capabilities in Python and SQL
• Cloud data warehouse/lakehouse experience (e.g., Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Databricks, or Apache Iceberg)
• Exposure to ETL tools such as Fivetran, DBT, or equivalent
• Python-based API frameworks
• API management tools
• RDBMS experience: MySQL, AWS RDS/Aurora, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, or equivalent
• Cloud: AWS, Azure, and/or GCP

Nice to have

• Designing and governing a centralized semantic layer for reliable AI and analytics
• Logging and monitoring experience: Splunk, DataDog, AWS CloudWatch, or equivalent
• AWS Serverless: API Gateway, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, SecretsManager

Benefits

• Flexible, employee-led remote model
• Professional development stipend
• Comprehensive health plans
• 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.