Staff Software Engineer

About the Role Samsara is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help set technical direction for the team. You'll work on tooling and infrastructure used by Samsara engineers, from CI/CD pipelines to the AI coding agents engineers rely on, with impact across the engineering organization. This role sits on a small team with broad surface area and opportunities to influence how software is built at scale. What You'll Do

• Help shape the technical direction of our developer platform — CI/CD, build systems, and the AI agents engineers interact with daily.
• Design and build AI agents that take real work off engineers' plates: coding, code review, test generation, release automation, and incident response.
• Scale our tooling so it can keep up as the engineering org grows, without sacrificing reliability or developer happiness.
• Standardize tools and practices so good ideas spread instead of getting reinvented on every team.
• Raise the technical bar through code reviews, design discussions, and mentorship.
• Partner with engineering leadership on the bets worth making, and be honest about tradeoffs.
• Represent Samsara externally when it makes sense — talks, open source, helping us become a place great engineers want to work.
• Live out our cultural principles: Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, and Win as a Team. What We're Looking For
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years building software, with 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 building developer platforms, internal tooling, or CI/CD for a large engineering org (hundreds of engineers or more).
• You've shipped real work with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, custom agents) — not just tried them out.
• Strong skills in Go, Python, TypeScript, or a similar language.
• A track record of making engineers measurably faster — quicker builds, easier deploys, less toil, happier developers.
• Comfort working in ambiguity and getting teams aligned without needing formal authority. Compensation & Benefits
• Annual Base Salary: $162,400—$290,000 USD
• RSU grant with no vesting cliff, and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance (subject to plan terms)
• Total rewards include base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity (for eligible roles) in a high-growth public company
• Flexible, employee-led remote mode