Staff Software Engineer, Maps Services

Samsara; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 162,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Equity eligible

Professional development stipend

Parental leave

Job summary

Samsara is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for its Maps platform, shaping its geospatial direction and reusable spatial APIs. This remote-friendly role spans data ingestion, routing foundations, and scalable map services across products.

You'll lead cross-team projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with leadership to balance performance, reliability, and growth as we expand our connected operations cloud.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of software development experience.
• 2+ years in architect or technical leadership role.
• 4+ years building large-scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Shape the technical direction of the Maps teams.
• Build geospatial systems and integrations that support core features across Samsara products.
• Scale storage, queries and computation for real-time features.
• Consolidate team geospatial solutions into scalable, platform-wide offerings.
• Create agentic solutions that let customers self-serve map data.
• Raise the technical bar through reviews and mentorship.
• Partner with engineering leadership on bets and tradeoffs.
• Represent Samsara externally in talks and community engagement.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Code design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

PostGIS

GeoPandas

Shapely

QGIS

GeoParquet

OpenStreetMap (OSM)

Job description

Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, which is a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations. At Samsara, we are helping improve the safety, efficiency and sustainability of the physical operations that power our global economy. Representing more than 40% of global GDP, these industries are the infrastructure of our planet, including agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing — and we are excited to help digitally transform their operations at scale.

Working at Samsara means you’ll help define the future of physical operations and be on a team that’s shaping an exciting array of product solutions, including Video-Based Safety, Vehicle Telematics, Apps and Driver Workflows, and Equipment Monitoring. As part of a recently public company, you’ll have the autonomy and support to make an impact as we build for the long term.

About the role

Maps are part of nearly everything Samsara builds. Vehicles, routes, sites, assets, and safety workflows all depend on knowing where things are and how the physical world fits together. The Maps team is building the shared geospatial platform that makes that possible.

We source, ingest, enrich, and serve the map data that Samsara's product teams use every day: from road networks and points of interest to addresses, boundaries, and customer-specific map context. Our customers are the engineers building products for millions of workers and the businesses that depend on them. When our data and APIs are accurate, reliable, and easy to use, every team building location-aware experiences at Samsara moves faster.

We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help set the technical direction for this platform. You'll work across the geospatial stack: building data ingestion and processing pipelines, modeling and serving map data, improving map matching and routing foundations, and creating APIs that make spatial capabilities reusable across Samsara. It's a small team with broad ownership, and the systems you build will become foundational infrastructure for teams across the company.

This role is remote and open to candidates based in the US.

You might be a good fit if:

• You enjoy working with internal and external customers to iterate and build software platforms
• You care about what Samsara does. The software we build helps keep grocery shelves stocked, lights on, and workers safe on the job.
• You work with urgency and think through the best solutions for the opportunities, requirements, and scale in front of you.
• You work well with others. We move faster when we move together.

In this role, you'll:

• Shape the technical direction of the Maps teams
• Build geospatial systems and integrations that support foundational features across most Samsara products.
• Scale our offerings to continue to support storage, query and computational load of the real-time features dependent on them
• Consolidate existing team-specific geospatial solutions into scalable platform-wide offerings.
• Build agentic solutions that allow our customers to self-serve the data they want to see how they want to see it.
• Raise the technical bar through code reviews, design discussions, and mentorship
• Partner with engineering leadership on the bets worth making, and be honest about tradeoffs
• Represent Samsara externally when it makes sense — talks, open source, community engagement with the mapping/geospatial ecosystem
• Live out our cultural principles: Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, and Win as a Team
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years building software, with at least 2 years in an architect or technical leadership role
• Strong programming and design fundamentals
• 4+ years working on large-scale distributed systems
• 4+ years leading technical projects across multiple teams

Nice to have:

• Experience with GIS technologies and spatial analysis, including PostGIS, spatial SQL, GeoPandas/Shapely, QGIS, and geospatial data validation
• Familiarity with geospatial data formats and open mapping ecosystems, including GeoParquet, OpenStreetMap (OSM), and OSM PBF; experience ingesting, transforming, validating, or serving these datasets
• Comfort working in ambiguity and getting teams aligned without needing formal authority

$162,400 — $290,000 USD

Total Rewards

At Samsara, we build for the people who keep the global economy moving. We want owners, not passengers, which is why our rewards are designed to fuel high-impact builders. Our compensation program delivers above-market total compensation through a combination of base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity (for eligible roles) in a high-growth public company. We meaningfully differentiate pay for our top performers, who have the opportunity to earn above-market compensation that can outpace the broader market over time.

Beyond compensation, we provide the foundations that enable long-term success: a flexible, employee-led remote model, a professional development stipend, comprehensive health and parental leave plans, and more. If you’re ready to build for the long term and own the outcome, your journey starts here.

Flexible Working

At Samsara, we embrace a flexible working model that caters to the diverse needs of our teams. Our offices are open for those who prefer to work in-person and we also support remote work where it aligns with our operational requirements. For certain positions, being close to one of our offices or within a specific geographic area is important to facilitate collaboration, access to resources, or alignment with our service regions. In these cases, the job description will clearly indicate any working location requirements. Our goal is to ensure that all members of our team can contribute effectively, whether they are working on-site, in a hybrid model, or fully remotely. All offers of employment are contingent upon an individual’s ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the company and in the specified work location, if applicable.

Belonging at Samsara

At Samsara, we welcome everyone regardless of their background. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, and other characteristics protected by law. We depend on the unique approaches of our team members to help us solve complex problems and want to ensure that Samsara is a place where people from all backgrounds can make an impact.

Accommodations

Samsara is an inclusive work environment, and we are committed to ensuring equal opportunity in employment for qualified persons with disabilities. Please email [e-mail] or click here if you require any reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process.

Samsara's Mission

Improve the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of the operations that power the global economy.