Staff Engineer - Telematics

The role

This is a technical leadership role with substantial hands-on engineering. You will work with customers to understand needs, lead ambiguous initiatives, and write code to build and scale Telematics products.

What you will do

• Work with customers and customer-facing teams to identify opportunities and test assumptions.
• Lead ambiguous initiatives from discovery and prototypes through production rollout.
• Write and ship code on the critical path across services, APIs and customer-facing experiences.
• Set technical direction and make pragmatic architecture choices.
• Own production quality, designing for correctness, reliability and performance.
• Increase engineer effectiveness through design and code reviews and mentoring.
• Hire, develop and lead an inclusive, engaged, and high performing team.
• Champion and embed Samsara's cultural principles.

Required qualifications

• Track record of shipping customer-facing products and growing them beyond initial launch.
• Strong product judgement with experience clarifying poorly defined problems.
• Deep hands-on software engineering ability with recent experience designing, implementing and operating production systems.
• Experience scaling products and the systems behind them.
• Technical leadership across team boundaries and ability to build alignment without formal authority.

Nice to have

• Experience building B2B software through an early growth stage
• Experience working on routing, workforce management or other software for physical operations

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 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 to improve physical operations. The company helps improve safety, efficiency and sustainability for industries including agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing.