Senior Cloud Platform Engineer: Scalable Infra Leader

Samsara; Bradford; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsara in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to shape scalable cloud platforms across multi-account AWS environments. You will reduce systemic production risk, improve safety, and drive cost efficiency at scale.

You will specialize in compute, networking, storage, or control planes, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product teams to deliver durable platforms and automated workflows.

Qualifications

• 6+ years designing and building software, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in compute/workload orchestration, networking, storage/stateful systems, or cloud infrastructure control planes.
• Strong 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.

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 critical 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 as we scale globally and across new offices.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

Cloud architectures

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Samsara in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to shape scalable cloud platforms across multi-account AWS environments. You will reduce systemic production risk, improve safety, and drive cost efficiency at scale.

You will specialize in compute, networking, storage, or control planes, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product teams to deliver durable platforms and automated workflows.