Software Engineer II - Web Experience

About the role:

Samsara is seeking a full-stack engineer to join the Web Experience team. The team is responsible for reducing customers’ workflow distance, and improving the discoverability of Samsara’s many features. Our team ensures that Samsara’s features are better together, and builds out some of the core experiences that our customers use day-to-day. This includes Search, Notifications and our navigation. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in software engineering, excellent communication skills, and a passion for working in a collaborative environment alongside a team of expert engineers.

This role is open to candidates residing in Canada except the Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, and Montreal metro areas.

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.

Click here to learn about what we value at Samsara.

In this role, you will: 

• Work with product managers, designers, firmware, and infra engineers to architect, build, test, and deliver full-stack features across front-end, back-end, and mobile. GoLang, GraphQL, Typescript, React, and ReactNative are some of the components of our technology stack. Direct experience with these technologies is not required.
• Be responsible for maintaining the production systems that your team owns and provide operational support.
• Help build the culture of the team and make it an enjoyable place to work
• Solve problems that enable our product for our global customers
• 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
• Partner with other teams to take in requirements for prioritization and evangelize the platform we’re building

Minimum requirements for the role:

• 2+ years of professional experience building customer-facing applications
• Strong programming/coding fundamentals in a language such as Java, Python, Golang, or TypeScript
• Experience designing and architecting large, high-scale systems
• A focus on and desire to mentor fellow engineers
• An ability to estimate, communicate, and deliver upon project milestones with your team

An ideal candidate also has:

• Experience with a public cloud such as AWS
• Familiarity with multiple tiers, like React Frontends and Microservices
• Contributed heavily to driving significant value to their customers
• Curious about our customers, and is eager to improve their day-to-day experience
• Loves shipping features that are immediately used by our customers
• Seeks to iterate on new products based on customer feedback
• A Bachelors or higher in Computer Science or a related discipline