About the company
Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness IoT data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations.
About the role
Maps are part of nearly everything Samsara builds. The Maps team is building the shared geospatial platform. We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help set the technical direction for this platform.
Responsibilities
- Shape the technical direction of the Maps teams
- Build geospatial systems and integrations that support foundational features across most Samsara products
- Scale our offerings to support storage, query and computational load of real-time features
- Consolidate existing team-specific geospatial solutions into scalable platform-wide offerings
- Build agentic solutions that allow customers to self-serve data
- Raise the technical bar through code reviews, design discussions, and mentorship
- Partner with engineering leadership on the bets worth making
- Represent Samsara externally — talks, open source, community engagement with the mapping/geospatial ecosystem
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years building software, with at least 2 years in an architect or technical leadership role
- Strong programming and design fundamentals
- 4+ years working on large-scale distributed systems
- 4+ years leading technical projects across multiple teams
Nice to have
- Experience with GIS technologies and spatial analysis, including PostGIS, spatial SQL, GeoPandas/Shapely, QGIS, and geospatial data validation
- Familiarity with geospatial data formats and open mapping ecosystems, including GeoParquet, OpenStreetMap (OSM), and OSM PBF
Conditions
- Annual base salary: $162,400 - $290,000 USD
- Eligible for an initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff, and ongoing refresh opportunities