Senior Software Engineer - Route Execution

About the role:

As a Senior Software Engineer on Samsara’s Route Execution team, you’ll build the systems that power route planning, optimization, dispatch, and real-time tracking for fleets across logistics, field services, and delivery. You’ll work across the stack to improve dispatcher tools, driver experiences, and scalable backend APIs that handle geospatial and real-time data at scale. You’ll partner with design, product, and mobile to ship reliable, performant features that customers use every day. 

We use Golang for our backend, Typescript and React for our web client, GraphQL to fetch data from our backend, and React Native for our mobile app. Direct experience with these technologies is not required.

This is a remote position open to candidates residing 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.

In this role, you will: 

• Core services for route creation, optimization, live tracking, and reporting with a 99.9%+ SLA.
• Web applications used by dispatchers to create, assign, and monitor routes in real time. 
• APIs and integrations with TMS/ERP systems that process millions of route events.
• Driver-facing commercial navigation features in partnership with our mobile team.
• AI-assisted workflows like smart data import, contextual rerouting, and predictive alerts using geospatial signals.
• 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:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of relevant industry experience in software development.
• Strong programming/coding fundamentals
• Experience designing and architecting large, high-scale systems.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, with a demonstrated ability to manage technical discussions.
• An ability to estimate, communicate, and deliver upon project milestones with your team.

An ideal candidate also has:

• Demonstrated experience in routing, dispatch and navigation systems.
• Contributed heavily to driving significant value to their customers.
• Enjoys understanding our users and what would make their day to day processes easier to manage.
• Loves shipping features that are immediately used by our customers.
• Seeks to iterate on new products based on customer feedback.
• Proactive growth mindset and improve on status quo.