Staff Software Engineer, Data Engineering

About the role:

The Samsara AI and Data team builds end-to-end machine learning and computer vision solutions for our customers as well as core ML infrastructure for Samsara. As a Staff Data Architect you will be a Data Engineering leader, responsible for designing and driving a new centralized data model that includes all product data supporting data science, analytics, and machine learning across the company. You will work closely with scientists as well as full-stack, firmware, and platform teams to deliver an architecture, pipelines, data sets, and relevant software.

This role can be office-based or fully remote in the US and Canada.

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 over 2.3 million 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 end user 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.

Click here to learn about what we value at Samsara.

In this role, you will: 

• Lead an org-wide initiative to redesign and launch a new comprehensive data model and supporting architecture
• Tech-lead a team of data engineers 
• Work with petabyte-scale data from the Samsara products, including camera and sensor devices 
• Stay connected to industry and academic research and adopt novel technology that suits Samsara’s needs
• 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:

• A post-secondary degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or other relevant field
• 8+ years experience as a Data Engineer, with at least 2+ years in technical leadership
• Experience designing and building large-scale data models
• A strong understanding of SWE foundations
• Expert experience in Spark, SQL, Scala, Python, Go, and other relevant technologies
• Ability to distill informal or ambiguous customer and business requirements into crisp problem definitions
• Proven ability to communicate verbally and in writing to technical peers and leadership teams with various levels of technical knowledge
• Experience coaching and mentoring scientists

An ideal candidate also has:

• Masters or higher in Computer Engineering or other related field
• Strong mathematics skills, and an understanding of statistics and/or machine learning
• Strong functional knowledge of tools like Databricks, Delta, Airflow, etc. 
• Record of successful mentoring and development of team members
• Experience working with large datasets (including product and time series data) using distributed computing (e.g., Spark, Hive)