Senior Software Engineer I/II - Infrastructure

Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, a platform that enables organizations relying on physical operations to use IoT data for actionable insights and improved operations. The Senior Software Engineer in the Infrastructure organization will evolve cloud foundations across a multi-account, multi-region AWS environment, improving reliability, scalability, safety, resilience, and cost efficiency. The role also leads cross-team infrastructure initiatives, builds infrastructure-as-code automation, participates in incident response, and mentors engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Set technical direction for major infrastructure systems and lead ambiguous initiatives spanning multiple teams
• Design, build, and operate reliable cloud platforms, bringing depth in one or more areas such as compute, networking, storage, stateful systems, or infrastructure control planes
• Improve the scalability, capacity management, isolation, recovery, and cost efficiency of critical production infrastructure
• Build standardized infrastructure-as-code workflows and reusable automation that support self-service provisioning, testing, progressive rollout, reconciliation, rollback, and drift prevention
• Identify shared failure modes and build safeguards that prevent localized failures from escalating into broad customer impact
• Contribute to multi-account, multi-region, and isolated AWS architectures, including regulated environments such as GovCloud
• Participate in operational ownership and incident response, using incidents and near misses to drive durable architectural improvements
• Mentor engineers, raise the quality of infrastructure design and operational judgment, and establish patterns that can be adopted across the organization
• Clearly communicate architecture, trade-offs, risks, and migration plans to technical and organizational stakeholders
• 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:

• 6+ years of experience designing and building software, infrastructure, or distributed systems, including operating critical systems in production
• Deep expertise in at least one of the following: compute and workload orchestration, networking, storage and stateful systems, or cloud infrastructure control planes
• Strong software-engineering fundamentals in Go, Python, Java, or a similar language
• Hands-on experience designing and operating infrastructure on a major public cloud platform; AWS experience is preferred
• Experience using infrastructure as code, such as Terraform, to safely manage production infrastructure
• Strong understanding of capacity management, failure domains, observability, rollout safety, and production recovery
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives across teams and through ambiguous problem spaces
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Designing and operating large-scale compute or container platforms such as ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, or similar orchestration systems
• Designing and operating stateful distributed systems such as Kafka, OpenSearch, managed databases, caching, or large-scale storage platforms
• Building internal infrastructure platforms, control planes, or self-service developer experiences adopted across multiple teams
• Designing multi-account or multi-region cloud architectures with strong workload isolation and disaster recovery
• Leading major infrastructure migrations while maintaining availability and controlling operational risk
• Delivering measurable improvements in infrastructure capacity, cost efficiency, or developer self-service
• This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US