Senior Data Platform Engineer – AI & Spark

Samsara; United States; Hybrid; USD 134,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsara is hiring a Senior Data Engineer II to lead data infrastructure, build scalable data platforms, and design AI-enabled data tooling. You will manage Spark workflows, data APIs, and collaborate across engineering teams to deliver reliable data products at scale.

The role emphasizes systems thinking, production-grade reliability, and mentoring junior engineers, with flexible working options in the US and Canada.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, data engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of work experience as a Software Engineer with data focus or as Data Engineer.
• 8+ years building large-scale data pipelines; production-grade.
• 5+ years Spark / PySpark in production; performance tuning.
• 3+ years developing/managing APIs, preferably in Python.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain end-to-end data pipelines and backend ingestion workflows.
• Work with data from ERP, CRM, product, orders, and support data.
• Manage critical data pipelines to enable growth and analytics.
• Facilitate data integration and transformation across applications.
• Develop and improve data architecture, quality, monitoring, and availability.
• Write data transformations in SQL/Python to generate data products.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data Modeling

Cloud Data Warehouses

Spark/PySpark

API Design

Big Data

Data Quality

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Advanced degree or relevant certifications

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

AWS/GCP/Azure

Fivetran/DBT

Job description

Samsara is hiring a Senior Data Engineer II to lead data infrastructure, build scalable data platforms, and design AI-enabled data tooling. You will manage Spark workflows, data APIs, and collaborate across engineering teams to deliver reliable data products at scale.

The role emphasizes systems thinking, production-grade reliability, and mentoring junior engineers, with flexible working options in the US and Canada.