Senior Staff Software Engineer

About the role:

Samsara’s Fleet Safety team is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our growing team. As a Senior Staff Engineer at Samsara, you will be a senior technical leader who brings new ideas and expertise to guide the team’s technical architecture to enable novel features and customer use cases. You will leverage your experience with the rapidly evolving space of AI technology to create innovative new solutions to solve real-world problems in physical operations and save lives.

Samsara’s Fleet Safety team builds a comprehensive solution utilizing Samsara’s GPS Fleet Tracking and AI Dash Cam hardware products to improve driver safety using AI and data to create products that provide real-time driver feedback and streamline video-based coaching. Samsara customers depend on these features to create safety programs that dramatically improve driver safety, reward safe driving practices, and build trust by exonerating drivers in no-fault accidents.

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US. 

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software, firmware, and hardware you build will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You want to build for scale: With millions of IoT devices deployed to our global customers, you will work on a range of new and mature technologies, driving scalable innovation for customers across industries, driving the world's physical operations.
• You are a life-long learner: We have ambitious goals. Every Samsarian has a growth mindset as we work with a wide range of technologies, challenges, and customers that push us to learn on the go.
• You believe customers are more than a number: Samsara engineers enjoy a rare closeness to the workers that are keeping our economy running - drivers, mechanics, service technicians - and you will have the opportunity to participate in customer interviews, collaborate with customer success and product managers, and use metrics to ensure our work is translating into better customer outcomes.
• You are a team player: Working on our Samsara Engineering teams requires a mix of independent effort and collaboration. Motivated by our mission, we’re all racing toward our connected operations vision, and we intend to win—together.

• Own the technical strategy across Fleet Safety: Define a coherent multi-year technical vision that aligns product needs with scalable architectures across video, telematics, and AI/ML workflows.
• Lead architecture and systems design for cross-cutting, ambiguous problems: Drive end-to-end definition, design quality, and delivery for the highest-impact initiatives; own one or more critical components that enable fast-paced innovation while meeting safety and reliability expectations.
• Advance AI/ML and Computer Vision in production: Translate research into robust customer-facing features—improving detection, classification, real-time feedback, and coaching workflows—with strong emphasis on system reliability, model lifecycle, and evaluation rigor.
• Scale distributed systems and data platforms: Evolve backend services, streaming pipelines, storage, and indexing for reliability, observability, security, and cost efficiency—reducing operational toil and improving performance at scale.
• Influence across teams to raise the engineering bar: Establish standards, guide difficult trade-offs, improve developer productivity, and ensure systems fit together cleanly to accelerate product delivery.
• Mentor and grow engineers: Actively coach Staff-level engineers, institutionalize best practices, and create mechanisms (documentation, automation, design reviews) that scale your impact and foster a culture of ownership, rigor, and inclusion.
• 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.

Minimum requirements for the role:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering.
• 12+ years of experience as a software engineer building customer-facing applications, with at least 8 of those years in an architect or leadership role, and 6+ years of experience leading cross-organization projects.
• Entrepreneurial experience with a track record of success for early-stage products.
• Stellar programming/coding fundamentals.
• Expertise in working on large-scale enterprise software applications.

An ideal candidate also has:

• Master's Degree or PhD in Computer Science/Engineering.
• Experience in applying Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence to real-world applications.
• Technical mastery in Go, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, C/C++, or other similar languages.