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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 23 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 Staff Software Engineer on the Maps team at Samsara, you will shape the technical direction of a geospatial platform that supports various products. Your responsibilities include building data ingestion and processing pipelines, improving map matching and routing systems, and creating reusable APIs for location-aware experiences. This role involves collaboration with internal and external customers and mentoring other engineers while ensuring the scalability and reliability of geospatial solutions.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- 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, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years building software, with at least 2 years in an architect or technical leadership role
- Strong programming and design fundamentals
- 4+ years working on large-scale distributed systems
- 4+ years leading technical projects across multiple teams
Nice to have
- Experience with GIS technologies and spatial analysis, including PostGIS, spatial SQL, GeoPandas/Shapely, QGIS, and geospatial data validation
- Familiarity with geospatial data formats and open mapping ecosystems, including GeoParquet, OpenStreetMap (OSM), and OSM PBF; experience ingesting, transforming, validating, or serving these datasets
- Comfort working in ambiguity and getting teams aligned without needing formal authority
What you get
- Annual base salary range of $162,400 — $290,000 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 specific technologies or programming languages mentioned, which may indicate a broad tech stack
- The role involves significant technical leadership and collaboration, which may require strong interpersonal skills
- The salary range is quite broad, which could reflect varying expectations based on experience
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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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