Staff Engineer - Telematics
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Job description
A hands-on Staff Software Engineer role at Samsara to help turn growing Telematics products, including routing and workforce management for physical operations, into major businesses. The role combines technical leadership with substantial hands-on engineering, working directly with customers from discovery through production rollout and scale.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Work directly with customers and customer-facing teams to understand unmet needs, test assumptions and identify opportunities worth pursuing.
- Agree on success measures with Product and Design before investing in a solution.
- Lead ambiguous initiatives end to end, from discovery and prototypes through production rollout, adoption and iteration.
- Use customer feedback and product data to decide what to improve, expand or stop.
- Write and ship code on the critical path, working across services, APIs and customer-facing experiences.
- Set technical direction for your area and align the teams needed to deliver it.
- Make pragmatic architecture choices that support rapid learning today and reliable growth over time.
- Own the production quality of what you build: design for correctness, reliability and performance, plan safe rollouts, and use operational evidence to address constraints as usage grows.
- Increase the effectiveness of engineers around you through design and code reviews, mentoring senior engineers, and removing recurring obstacles to delivery.
- Share context and decisions so others can move independently.
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara's cultural principles as we scale globally and across new offices.
- Hire, develop and lead an inclusive, engaged, and high performing team.
What we're looking for
- A track record of shipping customer-facing products and growing them beyond their initial launch, with a contribution to measurable outcomes such as adoption, revenue growth, retention, customer efficiency or cost to serve.
- Strong product judgement: worked directly with customers, clarified poorly defined problems and made decisions using evidence, including changing direction when an initial idea did not work.
- Deep hands-on software engineering ability, with recent experience designing, implementing and operating production systems.
- Ability to move from a prototype to maintainable software and explain the trade-offs along the way.
- Experience scaling products and the systems behind them, identifying the next constraint, balancing speed with reliability, and making technical investments that support customer and business growth.
- Technical leadership across team boundaries: built alignment without formal authority, made other engineers more effective, and communicated difficult choices clearly to technical and business partners.
Nice to have
- Experience building B2B software through an early growth stage, or working on routing, workforce management or other software for physical operations.
Benefits
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.
- Flexible, employee-led remote model.
- Professional development stipend.
- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans.
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About Samsara
Pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud
Samsara (NYSE: IOT) 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. The industries it serves represent more than 40% of global GDP, including agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing. Its product solutions include Video-Based Safety, Vehicle Telematics, Apps and Driver Workflows, and Equipment Monitoring.
Mission
Helping improve the safety, efficiency and sustainability of the physical operations that power our global economy.
Key facts
- Connected Operations Cloud / IoT
- NYSE: IOT
- Recently public company
- Serves industries representing more than 40% of global GDP
- Product solutions include Video-Based Safety, Vehicle Telematics, Apps and Driver Workflows, and Equipment Monitoring
What they value
- Focus on Customer Success
- Build for the Long Term
- Adopt a Growth Mindset
- Be Inclusive
- Win as a Team