Senior Software Engineer I - Agent Foundations

Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, enabling organizations to harness IoT data for actionable insights. The Senior Software Engineer will build the core platform for agentic development, coordinating intelligent agents to automate complex tasks and collaborating with internal teams on the full stack behind the agents.

Responsibilities:

• Build core infrastructure for multi-agent orchestration, including task planning, coordination, execution, and recovery
• Define and implement platform primitives and abstractions that enable internal teams to build and deploy new agents
• Design reliable backend services and APIs for agent discovery, state management, scheduling, and observability
• Architect systems to support scale, resilience, and long-running workflows across multiple concurrent agents
• Collaborate with internal teams building agents to refine APIs, tooling, and operational feedback loops
• Drive technical decisions in a high-ambiguity, early-stage environment where requirements evolve rapidly
• Own systems end to end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production operation
• 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

Requirements:

• 4+ years of Software Engineering experience
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building production systems
• Senior-level experience with high-scale backend or distributed systems
• Proficiency in Python
• Strong system design skills and production reliability mindset
• Comfortable working across the stack as needed
• Ability to operate in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
• Experience with Go
• Experience with agentic or autonomous systems, orchestration platforms, workflow engines, or automation infrastructure
• Familiarity with observability tooling, distributed tracing, and event-driven systems
• Experience designing APIs and internal tooling used by other engineering teams