Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Cloud Platforms (Remote)

Samsara; Toronto; Remote; CAD 209,000 - 293,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

RSU grant

Health benefits

Job summary

Samsara is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to evolve the cloud foundations behind every product. You’ll reduce production risk and enable growth by making infrastructure safer to change, easier to operate, and more resilient and cost-efficient at scale.

Bring deep expertise in at least one domain (compute, networking, storage, or control planes) and apply it across a multi-account, multi-region AWS environment. Lead standardization of IaC workflows and automation.

Qualifications

• 6+ years designing and building software, infra, or distributed systems in production.
• Deep expertise in one area: compute, networking, storage, or cloud control planes.
• Strong software foundations in Go, Python, or Java.
• Hands-on AWS experience with production infra and multi-account setups.
• Experience using infrastructure as code (Terraform) to manage production infra.
• Solid understanding of capacity management, failure domains, observability, and safe rollouts.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex initiatives across teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for major infra systems across teams.
• Design, build, and operate reliable cloud platforms in AWS.
• Improve scalability, capacity management, isolation, recovery, and cost efficiency.
• Create IaC workflows and reusable automation for self-service provisioning.
• Identify shared failure modes and build safeguards to prevent broad impact.
• Contribute to multi-account, multi-region AWS architectures, including GovCloud if applicable.
• Participate in incident response and drive durable architectural improvements.
• Mentor engineers and promote Samsara’s architectural patterns.
• Communicate architecture, trade-offs, and migration plans clearly to stakeholders.

Skills

Infra design

Cloud (AWS)

Go/Python/Java

Terraform

Observability

Leadership

Multi-account AWS

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Samsara is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to evolve the cloud foundations behind every product. You’ll reduce production risk and enable growth by making infrastructure safer to change, easier to operate, and more resilient and cost-efficient at scale.

Bring deep expertise in at least one domain (compute, networking, storage, or control planes) and apply it across a multi-account, multi-region AWS environment. Lead standardization of IaC workflows and automation.