Senior Cloud Platform Engineer — AWS & Infra Automation

Samsara; Bolton; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development stipend

Health and parental leave

Flexible working model

Job summary

Samsara is seeking a Senior Engineer in the Infrastructure org to evolve cloud foundations behind every Samsara product. You will reduce production risk, improve resilience, and drive cost efficiency across multi-account AWS deployments.

You will mentor teams, design enduring platform patterns, and partner with product engineers to transform recurring risks into durable, scalable infrastructure. A strong candidate embraces growth and teamwork.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience designing and building software, infrastructure, or distributed systems, including operating critical systems in production.
• Deep expertise in at least one of the following: compute and workload orchestration, networking, storage and stateful systems, or cloud infrastructure control planes.
• Strong software-engineering fundamentals in Go, Python, Java, or a similar language.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating infrastructure on a major public cloud platform; AWS experience is preferred.
• Experience using infrastructure as code, such as Terraform, to safely manage production infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of capacity management, failure domains, observability, rollout safety, and production recovery.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives across teams and through ambiguous problem spaces.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Designing and operating large-scale compute or container platforms such as ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, or similar orchestration systems.
• Designing and operating stateful distributed systems such as Kafka, OpenSearch, managed databases, caching, or large-scale storage platforms.
• Building internal infrastructure platforms, control planes, or self-service developer experiences adopted across multiple teams.
• Designing multi-account or multi-region cloud architectures with strong workload isolation and disaster recovery.
• Leading major infrastructure migrations while maintaining availability and controlling operational risk.
• Delivering measurable improvements in infrastructure capacity, cost efficiency, or developer self-service.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate reliable cloud platforms, bringing depth in one or more areas such as compute, networking, storage, stateful systems, or infrastructure control planes.
• Improve the scalability, capacity management, isolation, recovery, and cost efficiency of production infrastructure.
• Build standardized infrastructure-as-code workflows and reusable automation that support self-service provisioning, testing, progressive rollout, reconciliation, rollback, and drift prevention.
• Identify shared failure modes and build safeguards that prevent localized failures from escalating into broad customer impact.
• Contribute to multi-account, multi-region, and isolated AWS architectures, including regulated environments such as GovCloud.
• Participate in operational ownership and incident response, using incidents and near misses to drive durable architectural improvements.
• Mentor engineers, raise the quality of infrastructure design and operational judgment, and establish patterns that can be adopted across the organization.
• Clearly communicate architecture, trade-offs, risks, and migration plans to technical and organizational stakeholders.
• Champion, role model, and embed the company's cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.

Skills

Compute orchestration

Go

Python

Java

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Job description

Samsara is seeking a Senior Engineer in the Infrastructure org to evolve cloud foundations behind every Samsara product. You will reduce production risk, improve resilience, and drive cost efficiency across multi-account AWS deployments.

You will mentor teams, design enduring platform patterns, and partner with product engineers to transform recurring risks into durable, scalable infrastructure. A strong candidate embraces growth and teamwork.