Data Platform Engineer — Ingest & Lakehouse (Remote)

Antler; United States; On-site; USD 114,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsara is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Data Platform team. You will design, build, and operate data ingestion and lakehouse infrastructure, enabling analytics, AI, and product teams across the company.

The role emphasizes production data platforms, distributed systems, and large-scale ingestion, using Spark, Databricks, Delta Lake on S3, and AWS. Remote within the US is supported.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience in production environments.
• 4+ years of experience building or maintaining large-scale production data infrastructure, data platforms, distributed systems, or data lake systems.
• Strong experience with Apache Spark or similar distributed data processing systems.
• Experience operating production infrastructure in AWS, including services such as S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, Lambda, or similar.
• Proficiency in at least one production programming language such as Go, Python, Scala, or Java.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners, including software engineers, data scientists, analysts, security teams, and product stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate high-scale data ingestion and replication systems from Samsara’s primary production data stores, including RDS, DynamoDB, internal APIs, and event-driven systems, into our data lakehouse.
• Build and maintain reliable, scalable, and modern data platform infrastructure capable of handling petabytes of data across Samsara’s analytics, AI, product, and operational use cases.
• Improve the reliability, observability, scalability, security, and developer experience of Samsara’s Spark and Databricks-based data processing platform.
• Develop internal libraries, APIs, frameworks, and tooling in languages such as Go and Python to help teams across Samsara move, process, discover, and access data safely and efficiently.
• Work on foundational data lake and lakehouse technologies, including Delta Lake on S3, data catalogs, metadata services, orchestration systems, and platform automation.
• Collaborate closely with infrastructure, product engineering, data science, analytics, security, and data engineering teams to understand platform needs and deliver durable, scalable solutions.
• Stay connected to modern data platform technologies and help shape Samsara’s long-term data infrastructure roadmap, including support for AI, privacy, security, global scale, and customer-facing data products.
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles as we scale globally and across new offices.

Skills

Go

Python

Scala

Java

Tools

Apache Spark

Databricks

Airflow

Dagster

Prefect

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Unity Catalog

Job description

Samsara is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Data Platform team. You will design, build, and operate data ingestion and lakehouse infrastructure, enabling analytics, AI, and product teams across the company.

The role emphasizes production data platforms, distributed systems, and large-scale ingestion, using Spark, Databricks, Delta Lake on S3, and AWS. Remote within the US is supported.