About this role
About the Role Samsara Technologies India Private Limited is looking for a Staff Engineer to join the Platform & Infrastructure organization, responsible for building foundational systems that drive software products. This role involves spearheading the technical direction, acting as a technical leader, and enabling scalable features and customer use cases. The role is hybrid - 3 days per week in the office, located at Prestige Tech Park, Kadubeesanahalli, Bengaluru, India. What You'll Do
- Drive technology choices, implementing services, and architectural patterns with broad and lasting impact on Samsara's platform.
- Architect, design, and develop software that enables Samsara to operate at scale.
- Lead teams in delivering products and capabilities contributing to Samsara’s products and revenue.
- Deliver impact by solving hard technical problems and enabling products to reach the market quickly with high quality.
- Keep a platform-first approach and collaborate with infrastructure and product teams to build tools and solutions.
- Act as a multiplier for the team, elevating output of every team member.
- Contribute to Samsara’s engineering brand by representing Samsara in external forums.
- Champion and embed Samsara’s cultural principles: Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team. What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
- 12+ years of software design, development, and algorithm-related solutions with at least 4 years in an architect or leadership role.
- Stellar programming fundamentals.
- 4+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems.
- 4+ years of experience leading cross-organization projects.
- Expertise with web services at massive scale deployed on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- An ideal candidate also: Has 15+ years of relevant industry experience in software development; enjoys leading and mentoring engineers to think about systems lifecycles, edge cases, and failure modes; enjoys fostering collaboration among engineers with different focuses (frontend, mobile, firmware, vision, ML); is an expert in writing high-quality, performant, and maintainable code in a modern programming language; production experience working with JavaScript. Nice to Have
- 15+ years of relevant industry experience (as a bonus).
- Experience mentoring engineers and thinking about system lifecycles and failure modes.
- Interest in collaboration across frontend, mobile, firmware, vision, ML.
- Expertise in writing high-quality, maintainable code in modern languages.
- Production experience with JavaScript. Compensation & Benefits
- Salary: not disclosed in the posting.
- Benefits and perks: not specified.