Staff Software Engineer, Maps Services

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

Job summary

Samsara is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to shape the technical direction of the Maps platform. You’ll build data ingestion, processing pipelines, and APIs for reusable spatial capabilities across Samsara’s products, while mentoring teams and aligning cross-functional efforts.

The role is remote and open to candidates based in the US, with responsibilities spanning geospatial stack and foundational infrastructure for the company’s location-aware experiences.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years building software with at least 2 years in an architect/leadership role
• 4+ years working on large-scale distributed systems
• 4+ years leading technical projects across multiple teams
• Experience with GIS technologies and spatial analysis (PostGIS, GeoPandas/Shapely, QGIS)
• Familiarity with geospatial data formats and open mapping ecosystems (OSM)

Responsibilities

• Shape the technical direction of the Maps team and platform
• Build geospatial systems and integrations for core features
• Scale storage, query, and compute for real-time geospatial features
• Consolidate geospatial solutions into scalable platform-wide offerings
• Mentor and review code to raise the team’s technical bar

Skills

Software architecture

Distributed systems

Geospatial analysis

Leadership/mentorship

GIS technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PostGIS

GeoPandas/Shapely

QGIS

OSM data formats

Job description

At Samsara, we embrace a flexible working model that caters to the diverse needs of our teams.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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

Requirements

• 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
• 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
• The range of annual base salary for full-time employees for this position is below. Please note that base pay offered may vary depending on factors including your city of residence, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role is also eligible for an initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff, and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance, subject to plan terms and conditions. Learn more about our total rewards and benefits below.
• $162,400
• $290,000 USD
• 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.