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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 organization at Samsara, you will focus on evolving the cloud foundations that support various products. Your responsibilities will include designing and operating reliable cloud platforms, improving infrastructure scalability and cost efficiency, and building standardized infrastructure-as-code workflows. You will also collaborate with product engineering teams to enhance operational practices and mentor other engineers.
- 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 of the following: compute and workload orchestration, networking, storage and stateful systems, or cloud infrastructure 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; AWS experience is preferred
- Experience using infrastructure as code, such as Terraform, to safely manage production infrastructure
- Strong understanding of capacity management, failure domains, observability, rollout safety, and production recovery
Nice to have
- Designing and operating large-scale compute or container platforms such as ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, or similar orchestration systems
- Designing and operating stateful distributed systems such as Kafka, OpenSearch, managed databases, caching, or large-scale storage platforms
- Building internal infrastructure platforms, control planes, or self-service developer experiences adopted across multiple teams
- Designing multi-account or multi-region cloud architectures with strong workload isolation and disaster recovery
- Leading major infrastructure migrations while maintaining availability and controlling operational risk
What you get
- Annual base salary range of $154,700 — $260,000 USD
- Performance-based bonus/variable pay
- Equity opportunities in a high-growth public company
- Flexible, employee-led remote model
- Professional development stipend
- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of required on-call duties or incident response expectations
- The role emphasizes collaboration but also requires independent effort, which may vary in practice
- The position is remote but may have geographic preferences for collaboration
- Vague details on the specific technologies and tools used beyond AWS and Terraform
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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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