Senior Software Engineer - Safety Detection

Samsara; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 108,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote options

Equity for eligible roles

Professional development stipend

Health and parental leave plans

Flexible working model

Job summary

Samsara is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and enhance core safety review systems. You will work at the intersection of backend infrastructure, data, and AI-driven decisioning to improve customer-facing products and internal review efficiency.

Responsibilities include leading end-to-end projects, collaborating with product and ML teams, and using AI-assisted workflows to accelerate delivery while upholding reliability and code quality.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software development experience, backend or distributed systems.
• Experience shipping production systems that solve customer problems.
• Ability to connect technical decisions to customer value.
• Strong programming fundamentals; experience in at least one modern language.
• Experience designing large-scale, high-throughput systems.
• Experience operating in a data-led environment.
• Excellent cross-team communication; lead technical discussions clearly.
• AI-first engineer using modern AI tools to improve efficiency and code quality.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve core systems that review safety detections and surface events to customers.
• Improve detection precision by intelligent triage and deflection of low-value reviews.
• Work at intersection of backend, data, and AI-driven decisioning to improve product quality and internal efficiency.
• Collaborate with product, design, AI and ML infra to feed back model learning and improve detections.
• Own complex projects end-to-end from design to rollout and production measurement.
• Use AI-assisted engineering workflows to accelerate prototyping while maintaining reliability.
• Raise the bar for quality and operability across the Safety platform.

Skills

Backend

Distributed systems

AI-first engineering

Data-driven decisions

Cross-functional

Production systems

Customer value

Tools

Java

Cloud

IoT

Firmware

Hardware

Support

Job description

Salary: £68,000 - 108,000 per year

Requirements:

• 4+ years of software development experience, primarily in backend or distributed systems
• Experience on a product engineering team shipping systems that solve real customer problems
• Demonstrable focus on customer experience, with the ability to connect technical decisions to customer value
• Strong programming and software engineering fundamentals, with experience building production systems in at least one modern programming language
• Experience designing and building large-scale, high-throughput systems
• Experience operating in a data-led and data-backed environment
• Strong cross-team and cross-functional communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to lead technical discussions clearly and constructively
• AI-first engineer who consistently uses modern AI coding and reasoning tools to improve engineering efficiency, accelerate delivery, and raise the quality of codebases, while applying strong judgment to validate outputs and maintain a high bar for correctness, maintainability, and reliability

Responsibilities:

• Build and evolve the core systems that review safety detections and determine which events are surfaced to customers
• Improve detection precision by developing intelligent approaches to identifying ambiguous cases, deflecting low-value reviews, and automating triage where confidence is high
• Work at the intersection of backend systems, data, and AI-driven decisioning to improve both customer-facing product quality and internal review efficiency
• Partner closely with product, design, AI, and ML infra to turn real-world review outcomes into better model feedback loops and higher-quality safety detections over time
• Own complex projects end-to-end, from shaping the approach and technical design through rollout, measurement, and iteration in production
• Use modern AI-assisted engineering workflows pragmatically to accelerate prototyping, implementation, debugging, and iteration while maintaining strong engineering judgment, reliability, and code quality
• Raise the bar for quality, operability, and engineering clarity across a critical part of our Safety platform

Technologies:

• AI
• Backend
• Cloud
• IoT
• Support
• Firmware
• Hardware
• Java

More:

We are Samsara (NYSE: IOT), the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, helping organizations that depend on physical operations use IoT data to improve safety, efficiency, and sustainability. Our products support industries such as agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing, and we are focused on digitally transforming these operations at scale. As a recently public company, we offer the autonomy and support to make an impact for the long term. This Senior Software Engineer role is part of our Safety Detection Precision team, where we work on Video-Based Safety, Vehicle Telematics, Apps and Driver Workflows, and Equipment Monitoring. We offer a flexible working model with remote options where they align with operational needs, along with compensation that includes base salary, performance-based bonus or variable pay, and equity for eligible roles, plus a professional development stipend, comprehensive health and parental leave plans, and more.

last updated 36 week of 2026