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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 66 days Samsara's roles stay open a median of 66 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 4% of Samsara's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Samsara
- high 206 stale, 7 reposted of 260 open
- Hiring momentum
- 433 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-08
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Samsara's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Samsara.
About this role
As a Software Engineer on the Data Platform team at Samsara, you will design, build, and operate scalable and secure infrastructure for managing large volumes of data. Your work will involve developing systems for data ingestion, processing, and cataloging, while collaborating with various teams to support analytics and AI initiatives. This role focuses on building foundational data infrastructure rather than analytics or business data engineering.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Samsara as an employer.
What you need
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience in production environments
- 4+ years of experience building or maintaining large-scale production data infrastructure, data platforms, distributed systems, or data lake systems
- Strong experience with Apache Spark or similar distributed data processing systems
- Experience operating production infrastructure in AWS, including services such as S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, Lambda, or similar
- Experience designing, building, and operating reliable systems with strong ownership of scalability, observability, security, and operational excellence
- Proficiency in at least one production programming language such as Go, Python, Scala, or Java
Nice to have
- Experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, or similar lakehouse technologies such as Iceberg or Hudi
- Experience building data replication or ingestion systems from OLTP data stores into a data lake or lakehouse
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
- Familiarity with data catalogs, metadata systems, and data discovery tools such as Unity Catalog, Hive Metastore, DataHub, or Amundsen
- Experience with orchestration systems such as Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect
What you get
- Annual base salary range of $113,645 — $191,000 USD
- Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance
- Flexible, employee-led remote model
- Professional development stipend
- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
Worth weighing
- No relocation assistance provided
- Role is specialized in data infrastructure, not analytics or business data engineering
- Remote position limited to candidates residing in the US
Summarised from Samsara's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Samsara on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-08. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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