Staff Platform Engineer — Scale & Architecture (Remote)

Antler; United States; On-site; USD 162,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsara is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead technical direction for the Platform team, shaping architectural patterns and delivering scalable software solutions. You will guide projects, collaborate with engineers, and drive critical platform initiatives across our remote US teams.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in software design and distributed systems, with leadership experience and mastery in Go, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C/C++.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions with at least 2 of those years in an architect or leadership role
• Stellar programming/coding fundamentals
• 4+ year of experience building large scale distributed systems
• 4+ years experience leading cross-organization projects

Responsibilities

• Drive technology choices, implementing services, and/or establishing architectural patterns that have a broad and lasting impact on Samsara's platform.
• Identify opportunities and initiate strategic conversations to influence the direction of platform technology and engineering culture
• Architect, design, and develop software that enables Samsara to operate at scale
• Lead teams in delivering products and capabilities that contribute to Samsara’s products and revenue.
• Deliver impact by solving the hardest technical problems and enabling products to reach the market quickly and successfully with high quality.
• Keep a platform first approach while collaborating with our infrastructure and product teams to build products, tools and solutions.
• Act as a multiplier for the team, elevating the impact and output of every team member
• Contribute to Samsara’s engineering brand by representing Samsara in external-facing forums
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.

Skills

Go

Python

JavaScript

TypeScript

C/C++

Distributed systems

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Job description

Samsara is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead technical direction for the Platform team, shaping architectural patterns and delivering scalable software solutions. You will guide projects, collaborate with engineers, and drive critical platform initiatives across our remote US teams.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in software design and distributed systems, with leadership experience and mastery in Go, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C/C++.