Senior Data Engineer II — Remote Data Platform & AI

Trace; United States; On-site; USD 134,470 - 203,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development stipend

Remote-friendly work model

Parental leave

Job summary

Samsara is hiring a Senior Data Engineer II to shape our data infrastructure and platforms. You will design and optimize end-to-end data pipelines, manage data APIs, and contribute to the development of scalable data platforms in a fast-paced AI-driven environment.

You will work across ERP, CRM, Product, and Support data sources, building scalable Spark workflows and data products that empower Analytics, Marketing, and Sales teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, data engineering, data science, information technology, or an equivalent engineering program.
• 10+ years of work experience as a Software Engineer with data focus or as Data Engineer.
• 8+ years of experience building and maintaining large-scale, production-grade end-to-end data pipelines, including Data Modeling.
• 5+ years of hands-on Spark / PySpark in a production environment, including job optimization and performance tuning.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience developing and managing APIs, preferably in python.
• Core Engineering Fundamentals: Strong programming capabilities in Python and SQL, combined with cloud data warehouse/lakehouse experience (e.g., Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Databricks, or Apache Iceberg).
• Exposure to ETL tools such as Fivetran, DBT, or equivalent.
• API experience: Python-based API frameworks, API management tools.
• RDBMS experience: MySQL, AWS RDS/Aurora, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, or equivalent.
• Cloud: AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain end-to-end data pipelines and backend ingestion workflows; participate in building Samsara's Data Platform for automation and analytics.
• Work with data from ERP (Netsuite), CRM (Salesforce), Product, Order Flow, and Support ticket data.
• Manage critical data pipelines to enable growth initiatives and advanced analytics.
• Facilitate data integration and transformation for moving data between applications; ensure interoperability with data layers and data lake.
• Develop and improve data architecture, data quality, monitoring, observability, and data availability.
• Write data transformations in SQL/Python to generate data products used by Analytics, Marketing Operations, and Sales Operations.
• Design, build, and operate large-scale Spark and PySpark workflows for batch and streaming data processing across Databricks and cloud environments.
• Optimize Spark job performance — tuning partitioning, shuffle, caching, and resource allocation for production-grade reliability.

Skills

Python

SQL

Spark/PySpark

Data engineering

Cloud platforms

APIs

Databricks

Data modeling

Monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering related field

Tools

Snowflake

Google BigQuery

Databricks

Apache Iceberg

Fivetran

DBT

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

Job description

Samsara is hiring a Senior Data Engineer II to shape our data infrastructure and platforms. You will design and optimize end-to-end data pipelines, manage data APIs, and contribute to the development of scalable data platforms in a fast-paced AI-driven environment.

You will work across ERP, CRM, Product, and Support data sources, building scalable Spark workflows and data products that empower Analytics, Marketing, and Sales teams.