Software Engineer II

Summary

Samsara is a company providing a Connected Operations Cloud for organizations that depend on physical operations. The Software Engineer II will build customer-facing features and scalable backend services, APIs, and web experiences for safety event triage and driver insights, including AI-powered workflows and LLM-based systems.

Responsibilities

• Independently deliver well-scoped customer-facing features and platform capabilities from design and implementation through rollout and follow-through in production
• Build reliable services, APIs, and web experiences, improving existing systems while shipping new capabilities
• Contribute to AI-powered workflows and experiences using modern LLM tooling, including evaluation, iteration, and human-in-the-loop patterns
• Make thoughtful technical tradeoffs across speed, maintainability, scalability, and customer impact
• Collaborate across Engineering, Product, Design, ML, and platform teams to deliver cohesive customer experiences
• 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

Skills

• * 18 months+ of relevant software engineering experience building, shipping, and operating reliable customer-facing production systems
• * Experience developing features or end-to-end solutions across backend services, APIs, and modern web applications
• * Ability to independently own moderately complex projects or features within a release or two, with strong execution and follow-through
• * Experience writing clean, efficient, maintainable code and reviewing peer code for correctness and clarity
• * Ability to make thoughtful technical tradeoffs across performance, scalability, maintainability, and delivery speed
• * Experience using metrics, logs, tests, or tracing to debug issues, validate releases, and improve reliability
• * Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering and cross-functional partners
• * Experience or demonstrated interest in AI-native development, including LLMs and workflow automation
• * A growth mindset, strong product intuition, and excitement for learning new technologies and building impactful customer experiences
• * Experience working across the stack with modern technologies such as Go, GraphQL, TypeScript, React, and AWS
• * Familiarity with observability, rollout practices, and monitoring approaches that improve product reliability and operational excellence
• * Experience operating in fast-paced, highly collaborative environments with distributed teams
• This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US
• * Experience building and scaling customer-facing AI/LLM-powered products in production environments

Qualifications

Must Haves

• * 18 months+ of relevant software engineering experience building, shipping, and operating reliable customer-facing production systems
• * Experience developing features or end-to-end solutions across backend services, APIs, and modern web applications
• * Ability to independently own moderately complex projects or features within a release or two, with strong execution and follow-through
• * Experience writing clean, efficient, maintainable code and reviewing peer code for correctness and clarity
• * Ability to make thoughtful technical tradeoffs across performance, scalability, maintainability, and delivery speed
• * Experience using metrics, logs, tests, or tracing to debug issues, validate releases, and improve reliability
• * Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering and cross-functional partners
• * Experience or demonstrated interest in AI-native development, including LLMs and workflow automation
• * A growth mindset, strong product intuition, and excitement for learning new technologies and building impactful customer experiences
• * Experience working across the stack with modern technologies such as Go, GraphQL, TypeScript, React, and AWS
• * Familiarity with observability, rollout practices, and monitoring approaches that improve product reliability and operational excellence
• * Experience operating in fast-paced, highly collaborative environments with distributed teams
• This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US

Nice to Haves

• * Experience building and scaling customer-facing AI/LLM-powered products in production environments

Benefits

• Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff
• Ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance, subject to plan terms and conditions
• Performance-based bonus/variable pay
• Equity for eligible roles
• A flexible, employee-led remote model
• A professional development stipend
• Comprehensive health plans
• Comprehensive parental leave plans
• Flexible working model supporting on-site, hybrid, or fully remote work