Senior Data Platform Engineer - AI-Driven Pipelines

Samsara; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 134,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsara is seeking a Senior Data Engineer II to architect and scale data platforms that support AI-driven insights across the business. You will manage end-to-end data pipelines, integrate ERP/CRM/data sources, and design scalable data architectures for analytics teams.

The role emphasizes rare expertise in Spark, PySpark, and Python API development, with a strong emphasis on production-grade reliability and cloud data warehouse patterns. Eligible US/Canada candidates welcome.

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, plus cloud data warehouse/lakehouse experience (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, 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

• Design, build, and operate end-to-end data pipelines and data platforms for analytics and automation.
• Ingest data from ERP, CRM, Product, Order Flow, and Support data sources.
• Develop data architectures, ensure quality, monitoring, and availability.
• Write data transformations in SQL/Python to generate data products for Analytics, Marketing Operations, and Sales Ops.
• Design and run large Spark/PySpark workflows across Databricks and cloud environments.

Skills

Python

SQL

Spark / PySpark

Data Modeling

APIs (Python-based)

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science / data engineering / data science / information technology

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Databricks

Apache Iceberg

Fivetran

DBT

AWS Lambda

RDS

Job description

Samsara is seeking a Senior Data Engineer II to architect and scale data platforms that support AI-driven insights across the business. You will manage end-to-end data pipelines, integrate ERP/CRM/data sources, and design scalable data architectures for analytics teams.

The role emphasizes rare expertise in Spark, PySpark, and Python API development, with a strong emphasis on production-grade reliability and cloud data warehouse patterns. Eligible US/Canada candidates welcome.