Senior Software Engineer - Connectivity - job 1 of 2

About the role:

The Vehicle Connectivity team is responsible for building and operating features encompassing connectivity, accessories, and core business logic for Samsara’s Vehicle Gateway (VG). We enable seamless integration between devices, vehicles, and the cloud. We deliver customer facing features requiring end to end ownership of implementation across firmware, backend, and frontend domains.

This is a full-stack role where you will work in an integrated firmware - fullstack team to deliver features that power the core connectivity of Samsara’s telematics platform. The work you do ensures our devices remain securely and reliably connected in the field, supporting millions of IoT devices and mission-critical fleet operations worldwide. 

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the United States and Canada. Relocation assistance will not be provided for this role.

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.

In this role, you will: 

• Work with product managers, designers, firmware, and infrastructure engineers to design, build, test, and deliver end-to-end products and features
• Develop skills and knowledge across multiple technologies - Go, GraphQL, Typescript, JavaScript, React, and React Native are some of the components of our technology stack. Direct experience with these technologies is not required
• Solve real life problems and optimize fleets globally
• Grow as an engineer - Samsara engineers are constantly learning. We’re an engineering-first organisation with ample room for progression
• Participate in a one week per quarter on-call rotation and support outage investigations in the team’s ownership domain
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on customer success, build for the long term, adopt a growth mindset, be inclusive, and win as a team) as we scale globally and across new offices

Minimum requirements for the role:

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience
• Professional experience working with a team to develop real world customer facing products and features
• Strong programming/coding fundamentals in a modern language such as Golang, React-native, Swift, Kotlin, or Python
• Experience designing, building and maintaining user facing production systems
• An ability to estimate, communicate, and deliver upon project milestones with your team

An ideal candidate also has:

• Mobile Development experience
• SQL and data analysis capabilities
• Experience in IoT, telematics, condition monitoring solutions
• Contributed heavily to driving significant value to their customers
• Curiosity about our customers, and is eager to improve their day-to-day experience
• Seeks to iterate on new products based on customer feedback