Senior Backend Engineer, Distributed Agent Platform

Samsara; United States; On-site; USD 187,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Remote‑friendly

Professional development stipend

Health and parental leave

Job summary

Samsara is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build the core platform that enables multi‑agent orchestration. You will define core primitives, tackle hard system problems, and deliver backend services that support agent discovery, state management, scheduling, and observability.

You will contribute across the full stack behind the agents, from greenfield work to observability, and collaborate with teams to refine APIs and tooling as we scale our platform.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of Software Engineering experience.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building production systems.
• Senior‑level experience with high‑scale backend or distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Strong system design skills and production reliability mindset.
• Comfortable working across the stack as needed.
• Ability to operate in fast‑moving, ambiguous environments.

Responsibilities

• Build core infrastructure for multi‑agent orchestration, including task planning, coordination, execution, and recovery.
• Define and implement platform primitives and abstractions that enable internal teams to build and deploy new agents.
• Design reliable backend services and APIs for agent discovery, state management, scheduling, and observability.
• Architect systems to support scale, resilience, and long‑running workflows across multiple concurrent agents.
• Collaborate with internal teams building agents to refine APIs, tooling, and operational feedback loops.
• Drive technical decisions in a high‑ambiguity, early‑stage environment where requirements evolve rapidly.
• Own systems end to end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production operation.
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles as we scale globally and across new offices.

Skills

Python

Go

System design

Distributed systems

Backend development

Tools

Observability tooling

Distributed tracing

APIs tooling

Job description

Samsara is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build the core platform that enables multi‑agent orchestration. You will define core primitives, tackle hard system problems, and deliver backend services that support agent discovery, state management, scheduling, and observability.

You will contribute across the full stack behind the agents, from greenfield work to observability, and collaborate with teams to refine APIs and tooling as we scale our platform.