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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 26 days Samsara's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 4% of Samsara's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Samsara
- low 0 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
- 2026-09-17
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 Senior Software Engineer in the Infrastructure team at Samsara, you will enhance the cloud foundations that support various products by improving infrastructure reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency. Your responsibilities include designing and operating cloud platforms, building infrastructure-as-code workflows, and collaborating with product engineering teams to mitigate risks and improve operational practices. You will also mentor other engineers and communicate technical strategies to stakeholders.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- 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
- 6+ years of experience designing and building software, infrastructure, or distributed systems
- Deep expertise in at least one infrastructure domain such as compute, networking, storage, or cloud control planes
- Strong software-engineering fundamentals in Go, Python, Java, or a similar language
- Hands-on experience designing and operating infrastructure on a major public cloud platform, preferably AWS
- Experience using infrastructure as code, such as Terraform
- Strong understanding of capacity management, failure domains, observability, rollout safety, and production recovery
Nice to have
- Experience designing and operating large-scale compute or container platforms such as ECS, EKS, Kubernetes
- Experience designing and operating stateful distributed systems such as Kafka, OpenSearch, managed databases
- Experience building internal infrastructure platforms or control planes
- Experience designing multi-account or multi-region cloud architectures
- Experience leading major infrastructure migrations while maintaining availability
What you get
- Annual base salary range of $142,800 — $184,800 CAD
- Eligible for initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance
- Flexible, employee-led remote work model
- Professional development stipend
- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
Worth weighing
- Remote position open to candidates residing in Canada only
- No specific mention of the tech stack beyond AWS and infrastructure domains
- Role involves significant responsibility in leading initiatives across teams, which may require strong collaboration skills
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Listed by Samsara on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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