Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, helping organizations harness IoT data to improve operations. They are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to develop and maintain data pipelines, design data platforms, and enhance data architecture while promoting a collaborative and innovative work environment.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain end-to-end data pipelines and backend ingestion workflows, and participate in the build of Samsara's Data Platform to enable advanced automation and analytics
- Work with data from a variety of sources including ERP(Netsuite), CRM(Salesforce), Product, Order Flow, and Support ticket data
- Manage critical data pipelines to enable growth initiatives and advanced analytics
- Facilitate data integration and transformation for moving data between applications, ensuring interoperability with data layers and the data lake
- Develop and improve data architecture, data quality, monitoring, observability, and data availability
- Write data transformations in SQL/Python to generate data products consumed by Analytics, Marketing Operations, and Sales Operations teams
- Design, build, and operate large-scale Spark and PySpark workflows for batch and streaming data processing across Databricks and cloud environments
- Optimize Spark job performance — tuning partitioning, shuffle, caching, and resource allocation for production-grade reliability and efficiency
- Define and enforce data engineering standards, patterns, and best practices across the team
- Design systems with long-term maintainability in mind: clear contracts, testable components, and thoughtful failure modes
- Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to evolve the underlying architecture of Samsara's enterprise data ecosystem
- Build and maintain MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that expose Samsara's data assets and engineering workflows to AI models and internal tooling
- Collaborate with platform teams to integrate agentic workflows into the data engineering lifecycle
- Evaluate and adopt emerging AI-native tooling for data engineering, staying ahead of the curve on how LLMs and agents can accelerate data work
- 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
- Provide mentorship to junior team members and deliver technical guidance, training, and knowledge-sharing across teams
- Engage directly with internal cross-functional stakeholders to understand their data needs and design scalable solutions
- Lead end-to-end projects as the central point of contact for stakeholders
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, data engineering, data science, information technology, or an equivalent engineering program
- 8+ years of work experience as a Software Engineer with data focus or as Data Engineer
- 5+ years of experience building and maintaining large-scale, production-grade end-to-end data pipelines, including Data Modeling
- 5+ years of hands-on Spark / PySpark in a production environment, including job optimization and performance tuning
- Core Engineering Fundamentals: Strong programming capabilities in Python and SQL, combined with cloud data warehouse/lakehouse experience (e.g., Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Databricks, or Apache Iceberg)
- Exposure to ETL tools such as Fivetran, DBT, or equivalent
- API experience: Python-based API frameworks for data pipeline ingestion
- RDBMS experience: MySQL, AWS RDS/Aurora, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, or equivalent
- Cloud: AWS, Azure, and/or GCP
- Designing and governing a centralized semantic layer for reliable AI and analytics
- Logging and monitoring experience: Splunk, DataDog, AWS CloudWatch, or equivalent
- AWS Serverless: API Gateway, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, SecretsManager
Benefits
- Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff, and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance, subject to plan terms and conditions
- Performance-based bonus/variable pay
- Equity (for eligible roles) in a high-growth public company
- Flexible, employee-led remote model
- Professional development stipend
- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
- Flexible working model that caters to the diverse needs of our teams
- Offices are open for those who prefer to work in-person and we also support remote work where it aligns with our operational requirements
- Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process for qualified persons with disabilities
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