Software Engineer - Data Platform

Job description

About this role

Who we are Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, which 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.

Responsibilities

• - Design, build, and operate high-scale data ingestion and replication systems from Samsara’s primary production data stores, including RDS, DynamoDB, internal APIs, and event-driven systems, into our data lakehouse.
• - Build and maintain reliable, scalable, and modern data platform infrastructure capable of handling petabytes of data across Samsara’s analytics, AI, product, and operational use cases.
• - Improve the reliability, observability, scalability, security, and developer experience of Samsara’s Spark and Databricks-based data processing platform.
• - Develop internal libraries, APIs, frameworks, and tooling in languages such as Go and Python to help teams across Samsara move, process, discover, and access data safely and efficiently.
• - Work on foundational data lake and lakehouse technologies, including Delta Lake on S3, data catalogs, metadata services, orchestration systems, and platform automation.

Qualifications and requirements

• - 4+ years of professional software engineering experience in production environments.
• - 4+ years of experience 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.
• - Experience operating production infrastructure in AWS, including services such as S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, Lambda, or similar.
• - Experience designing, building, and operating reliable systems with strong ownership of scalability, observability, security, and operational excellence.