Samsara
Software Engineer - Data Platform
$114K–$191K
Remote - US +1 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Jun 9, 2026
- Location
- Remote - US
Remote - NYC - Experience
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience and 4+ years building or maintaining large-scale production data infrastructure, data platforms, distributed systems, or data lake systems.
- Visa sponsorship
- All offers are contingent on the ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the company and in the specified work location.
About the job
Build and operate Samsara’s large-scale data platform infrastructure for ingesting, processing, cataloging, and accessing data for analytics, AI, and product use cases.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate high-scale data ingestion and replication systems from production data stores into the data lakehouse.
- Improve the reliability, scalability, security, observability, and developer experience of the data processing platform.
- Develop internal data libraries, APIs, frameworks, and tooling, and collaborate with teams across the company.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience in production environments.
- 4+ years building or maintaining large-scale production data infrastructure, data platforms, distributed systems, or data lake systems.
- Strong experience with Apache Spark or similar distributed data processing systems; production AWS infrastructure experience.
- Experience operating reliable systems and proficiency in at least one production programming language such as Go, Python, Scala, or Java.
Nice to have
- Experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, or similar lakehouse technologies; data replication or ingestion from OLTP stores.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, data catalogs, orchestration, streaming, containers, or internal platform tooling.
Pay
$113,645 — $191,000 USD (annual base salary)
Tools
Apache Spark, Databricks, Delta Lake, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Go, Python
AI focus
Build and maintain data infrastructure supporting AI use cases, model training, and Samsara’s long-term AI roadmap.
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