Staff Software Engineer, DevEx (CI/CD)

The role

You will scale in-house CI/CD systems and build AI-native workflows to increase engineering throughput. You will design deployment safeguards, build observability systems, and partner with product teams to reduce operational toil using AI.

What you will do

• Scale in-house CI/CD systems to meet increasing pull-request throughput
• Reduce tech debt using efficient AI workflows
• Design and build deployment safeguards using AI to monitor and fix issues
• Build observability, evaluation, and feedback systems for AI-driven automation
• Serve as a thought leader for using AI to increase engineering productivity
• Redefine the outer loop of the SDLC with AI-native workflows
• Turn emerging AI capabilities into safe, observable, and production-ready engineering systems
• Partner with product engineering teams to reduce operational toil
• Experiment with AI-assisted software development to convert successful experiments into platforms

Required qualifications

• 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 working on developer experience, CICD and/or platform engineering-focused teams
• Experience in building AI workflows, orchestration systems or other harnesses of AI
• Proven track record in architecting CICD systems, build and deploy platforms, and automated response workflows, Buildkite (or equivalent BYOC software)
• Proven experience working on large-scale enterprise software applications
• Experience in building and maintaining a large organization's Software Development Life Cycle (DevEx)
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or the like)
• Experience in implementing AI-driven automation across the SDLC
• Experienced at writing high-quality code (Go, Python, or equivalent) focused on infrastructure, deployment, and operations challenges
• Experienced orchestrating multiple AI agents en-mass to tackle complex tasks
• Strong leadership and direction setting skills

Nice to have

• Forward thinking about the capabilities AI, an advocate for AI usage
• Experience with building in-house CICD systems
• Experienced with building for FedRamp, StateRamp or other compliance requirements

Benefits

• 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.