Senior Platform Engineer - Agentic APIs & Integrations

Remote Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Remote-friendly

Professional development stipend

Parental leave

Job summary

Samsara is hiring a Software Engineer to help build the foundations powering our developer ecosystem and reporting products. You’ll work on backend and distributed systems, APIs, and data infrastructure to support enterprise-scale workflows and AI-assisted engineering.

The role emphasizes strong backend focus, API design, and observability, with exposure to AI coding assistants such as Codex, Claude Code, or Cursor, and a flexible remote work model.

Qualifications

• Strong professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Enterprise experience with developer platforms, integration frameworks, event-driven systems, data platforms, or analytical reporting infrastructure.
• Experience operating production software at enterprise scale or high transaction and data volumes.
• Strong backend engineering skills, including API design, distributed systems, data modeling, reliability, and observability.
• Experience delivering full-stack functionality and collaborating effectively across frontend and backend boundaries.
• Expert practical knowledge of AI coding assistants such as Codex, Claude Code, or Cursor.
• Ability to make sound engineering trade-offs and communicate technical decisions clearly.

Responsibilities

• Build foundational capabilities for Samsara’s agentic experiences, enabling AI agents to securely discover data, use tools, integrate with external systems, and execute reliable workflows at enterprise scale.
• Design systems for high throughput, availability, observability, security, and maintainability.
• Apply AI assistants, including Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor - across design, implementation, testing, debugging, and code review.
• Improve frameworks, tooling, and engineering practices that increase the effectiveness of teams across Samsara.
• Mentor other engineers and contribute to architectural decisions and technical strategy.
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles as we scale globally and across new offices
• Hire, develop and lead an inclusive, engaged, and high performing team

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

APIs

Observability

AI tooling

Tools

REST APIs

GraphQL

Job description

Samsara is hiring a Software Engineer to help build the foundations powering our developer ecosystem and reporting products. You’ll work on backend and distributed systems, APIs, and data infrastructure to support enterprise-scale workflows and AI-assisted engineering.

The role emphasizes strong backend focus, API design, and observability, with exposure to AI coding assistants such as Codex, Claude Code, or Cursor, and a flexible remote work model.