Senior Cloud Platform Engineer — Scale & Resilience

Samsara; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Professional development stipend

Parental leave

Job summary

Samsara, a pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, is hiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the Manchester area. You will design and operate scalable cloud platforms, focusing on compute, networking, storage, or control planes within AWS, and lead improvements across teams.

You will drive automation, capacity planning, and resilient rollout strategies, partnering with product and engineering to deliver durable platforms that reduce risk and cost while supporting growth and global

Qualifications

• 6+ years designing and building software, infrastructure, or distributed systems in production.
• Deep expertise in at least one area: compute/networking/storage or infrastructure control planes.
• Strong software fundamentals in Go, Python, or Java.
• Experience operating infrastructure on major public clouds, AWS preferred.
• Experience using Terraform or similar IaC tools for production management.
• Understanding capacity management, failure domains, observability and safe rollouts.
• Ability to lead complex initiatives across teams and keep risk in check.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate reliable cloud platforms across multi-account AWS environments.
• Improve scalability, capacity management, isolation, recovery, and cost efficiency.
• Create IaC workflows and automation for self-service provisioning and rollout safety.
• Identify shared failure modes and build safeguards to prevent broad impact.
• Contribute to multi-account, multi-region architectures including GovCloud where applicable.
• Own incident response and post-incident improvements with engineering teams.
• Mentor engineers and establish reusable architectural patterns across teams.
• Communicate architecture, risks, and migration plans to stakeholders.
• Champion Samsara's cultural principles at scale and across offices.

Skills

Compute & networking

Storage & stateful systems

Cloud infrastructure control planes

Go / Python / Java

AWS expertise

Terraform / IaC

Kubernetes / container platforms

leadership & cross-team coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Samsara, a pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, is hiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the Manchester area. You will design and operate scalable cloud platforms, focusing on compute, networking, storage, or control planes within AWS, and lead improvements across teams.

You will drive automation, capacity planning, and resilient rollout strategies, partnering with product and engineering to deliver durable platforms that reduce risk and cost while supporting growth and global