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Senior Data Engineer

Samsara · Remote - Canada

Posted about 3 months ago

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This role has been open
80 days
Samsara's roles stay open a median of 80 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
4% of Samsara's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Samsara
high
255 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
2026-10-22

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About this role

As a Senior Data Engineer at Samsara, you will focus on developing and maintaining end-to-end data pipelines and backend ingestion workflows to enhance the company's Data Platform. Your role involves working with various data sources, optimizing Spark workflows, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure data quality and availability. You'll also be involved in building AI-augmented engineering tools and mentoring junior team members in a collaborative and innovative environment.

Our read on this posting2.8out of 5
benefits
3/5
freshness
1/5
career value
5/5
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

  • 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
  • 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

Nice to have

  • 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

What you get

  • Annual base salary range of $119,000 — $154,000 CAD
  • Performance-based bonus/variable pay
  • Equity opportunities for eligible roles
  • Flexible, employee-led remote model
  • Professional development stipend
  • Comprehensive health and parental leave plans

Worth weighing

  • Remote position only available for candidates residing in Canada
  • No specific mention of the tech stack beyond Spark and Python
  • Role emphasizes building platforms over traditional pipeline work, which may not suit all data engineers

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Listed by Samsara on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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