Staff Software Engineer, Maps Services

The role

You will set the technical direction for the Maps team by building geospatial systems and integrations. You will work across the geospatial stack to build data pipelines, model and serve map data, and create reusable APIs.

What you will do

• Shape the technical direction of the Maps teams
• Build geospatial systems and integrations that support foundational features
• Scale offerings to support storage, query and computational load
• Consolidate existing team-specific geospatial solutions into platform-wide offerings
• Build agentic solutions for customer self-service data
• Raise the technical bar through code reviews, design discussions, and mentorship
• Partner with engineering leadership on technical bets and tradeoffs
• Represent Samsara externally through talks, open source, and community engagement

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years building software
• At least 2 years in an architect or technical leadership role
• Strong programming and design fundamentals
• 4+ years working on large-scale distributed systems
• 4+ years leading technical projects across multiple teams

Nice to have

• Experience with GIS technologies and spatial analysis, including PostGIS, spatial SQL, GeoPandas/Shapely, QGIS, and geospatial data validation
• Familiarity with geospatial data formats and open mapping ecosystems, including GeoParquet, OpenStreetMap (OSM), and OSM PBF
• Experience ingesting, transforming, validating, or serving these datasets
• Comfort working in ambiguity and getting teams aligned without needing formal authority

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 at the company and 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.