Software Engineer - Ingestion

About the role

Samsara’s platform supports industries that power our economy. From managing truck fleets, to dispatching emergency vehicles, to securing warehouses, our customers depend on us for their critical operations.

Samsara is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Data Ingestion team. As an engineer on the Data Ingestion team, your goal will be to continually improve the reliability, performance, and scalability of the data ingestion infrastructure that powers Samsara’s platform.

On this team, we maintain the real-time data ingestion platform at Samsara that our product teams can rely on to experiment, iterate, and build new products and features rapidly. You will have an opportunity to work closely with other teams who use the systems you build & maintain, collecting immediate feedback to continuously improve this infrastructure. We are on a mission to scale our ingestion system to support our rapidly growing customer base, and we’d love for you to be a part of it.

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

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work, this role won’t be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development, countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
• You’re energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative, ambitious ideas for our customers.
• You want to be with the best: At Samsara, we win together, celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a high-calibre team that will encourage you to do your best. 

In this role, you will: 

• Develop and scale microservices handling gigabytes/sec of streaming data
• Identify and add new features to our in-house time-series data store
• Partner with product and firmware teams to understand their data needs and build solutions to support them
• Build a great user experience for our internal customers using this infrastructure
• 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 or equivalent practical experience
• 1-2+ years of relevant industry experience in software development
• Experience working with web services deployed on Cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP

An ideal candidate also has:

• Experience working on backend-focused teams
• Enjoys thinking about systems - their life cycles, edge cases, interactions, and failure modes
• Enjoys working collaboratively with developers of different focuses (such as frontend, mobile, firmware, ML/computer vision