Senior Software Engineer II

About the role

What you will do

• Own technically complex, mission-critical areas and deliver outcomes with autonomy.
• Set technical strategy for products and platform capabilities, including backend services, APIs, and customer-facing UI.
• Design and ship end-to-end full-stack features across backend, frontend, and potentially mobile.
• Partner with product, design, and customer-facing teams to translate ambiguous problems into technical plans and measurable outcomes.
• Build and scale AI product systems, including data ingestion, APIs, and workflows for operators.
• Raise engineering standards through code reviews, design reviews, mentorship, and quality practices.
• Engage with customers and cross-functional partners to build products that address operational needs.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least eight years of software design and development experience, including building and operating production systems at scale.
• Strong full-stack skills across backend services, APIs, and frontend web or mobile.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, or similar modern languages and frameworks.
• Experience leading cross-team or cross-organization projects from inception through rollout and delivering measurable impact.
• Experience building AI-powered or data-driven products and translating AI capabilities into customer products.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Track record of building zero-to-one products, improving systems, or solving difficult problems.

Additional strengths

• Production experience with LLM products, agentic workflows, recommendation systems, or other customer-facing AI is ideal.
• Familiarity with AI-augmented workflows such as Cursor and LLMs is ideal.
• Operational data experience or interest, including telematics, sensor data, work orders, and inspections, is ideal.
• Mentoring senior engineers, influencing engineering culture beyond one team, and side projects or open-source contributions are welcomed.

Total rewards

• Compensation includes base salary, performance-based bonus or variable pay, and equity for eligible roles; no salary amount or pay cadence is stated.
• Benefits include a professional development stipend, health and parental leave plans, and a flexible employee-led remote model.

Workplace

• This role is remote for candidates residing in Canada.
• Samsara also supports in-person and hybrid work for roles where the job description specifies those arrangements; this posting explicitly identifies the role as remote.