IT Automation Engineer

About the role:

In Samsara’s Business Technology Core IT team, we work to deliver awesome systems, support, and experiences that enable our teams to be as impactful as possible.  As a member of the team, you’ll be in charge of owning the technology and processes that enable our people to do their best work. We are responsible for identifying, designing, implementing, and supporting the applications to create a streamlined experience for Samsarians. As a DevOps IT Engineer on the team, you will provide guidance and expertise in code build and release automation, CI/CD pipelines, overall DevOps methodologies and cloud infrastructure design. You will be driving strategic & mission-critical initiatives, technology assessment, architecture decisions, and building custom solutions by partnering with various technology teams and leaders.

This role will be eligible for remote work.

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-caliber team that will encourage you to do your best. 

Click here to learn about what we value at Samsara. 

In this role, you will:

• Evaluate, innovate, develop, implement, and support any variety of internal SaaS Engineering automation systems geared to produce efficiency at scale
• Develop and deploy new architecture patterns for services that maximize availability, security, scalability, and livability for the supporting team
• Serve as the domain expert on implementation, management, and support of Business technology products and IT applications
• Write code for various management tools, test automation and deployment utilities
• Integrate and implement best practices and DevOps methodologies in every step of the IT engineering process
• Design, develop, support and manage integrations to internal and external systems as required
• Deliver high quality software using development methodologies
• Conduct research and make recommendations on improvements to systems, tools, and processes
• Manage technical requirements gathering, technical gap analysis, and contribute to backlog grooming
• 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 Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, engineering or related field
• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps Engineer or similar role; experience in software development and infrastructure
• Must have experience working as a part of a corporate IT Team
• Experience working with API’s in Javascript (Node.js), Python or Go
• Progressively related experience in design, development, and implementation of highly scalable, high-volume software systems, applications and major SaaS solutions
• Experience with containerization tools, including Docker 
• Experience with source code versioning, Git, or GitHub

An ideal candidate also has one or more:

• Proficient in creating and developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripts - utilizing industry standard tools like Terraform and/or CloudFormation, and building CI/CD processes and pipelines to enable 1-click and self-managed deployments
• Experience creating and maintaining AWS cloud resources and services. Relevant services include Lambda, EC2, S3, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, ECS, RDS, and API Gateway
• Exposure to scale in a SaaS-first IT environment (Google Workspace, Okta, Slack, Zoom, Github, Zendesk, etc)
• Developed and managed applications in a team environment
• Experience with Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence, OpsGenie, StatusPage)
• Experience with Splunk
• Expertise with Google Workspace and Google Cloud Platform
• Must be detail oriented, self-organized, be committed to quality and capable of tracking multiple work streams simultaneously
• Ability to work in a fast-changing, dynamic, and agile environment, including the ability to manage time and maintain an excellent work ethic
• Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations
• Ability to spearhead and drive work without supervision across functions and collaborate with all levels of users and management