Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate reliable cloud platforms, bringing depth in one or more areas such as compute, networking, storage, stateful systems, or infrastructure control planes.
• Improve the scalability, capacity management, isolation, recovery, and cost efficiency of critical production infrastructure.
• Build standardized infrastructure-as-code workflows and reusable automation that support self-service provisioning, testing, progressive rollout, reconciliation, rollback, and drift prevention.
• Identify shared failure modes and build safeguards that prevent localized failures from escalating into broad customer impact.
• Contribute to multi-account, multi-region, and isolated AWS architectures, including regulated environments such as GovCloud.
• Participate in operational ownership and incident response, using incidents and near misses to drive durable architectural improvements.
• Mentor engineers, raise the quality of infrastructure design and operational judgment, and establish patterns that can be adopted across the organization.
• Clearly communicate architecture, trade-offs, risks, and migration plans to technical and organizational stakeholders.
• 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.

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