Samsara: Staff Software Engineer - Platform and Infrastructure — Bengaluru - BLR1

About Samsara

Samsara provides connected operations software for physical businesses. Its platform connects vehicles, equipment and sites through IoT devices such as cameras, sensors and gateways, giving transport, construction and other operators real-time telemetry on vehicle fleets, safety events and other assets. AI-assisted video and workflow applications support fleet safety and compliance reporting, and its employer feed lists engineering, account management and support roles.

The position and its setting

Samsara lists Staff Software Engineer - Platform and Infrastructure in Bengaluru - BLR1, under reference 7266287. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Platform
• Employer listing date: 28 October 2025

Responsibilities and work described

• Samsara Technologies India Private Limited is looking for a Staff Engineer to join the Platform & Infrastructure organization, which is responsible for building foundational systems that drive software products
• Examples include areas such as Reporting/Automations/Enterprise capabilities to support our rapidly growing footprint of customers and foundational infrastructure capabilities such as container orchestration/data storage/real-time data ingestion/GraphQL execution to power Samsara engineering
• Work: on specific projects critical to Samsara’s needs alongside other highly-skilled Samsara engineers and push Samsara’s technical capabilities forward
• This role is hybrid - 3 days per week in the office
• Office address: PRESTIGE TECH PARK, Kadubeesanahalli, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560103, India
• You should apply if:
• You are a life-long learner: We have ambitious goals
• Every Samsarian has a growth mindset as we work with a wide range of technologies, challenges, and customers that push us to learn on the go
• You are a team player: Working on our Samsara Engineering teams requires a mix of independent effort and collaboration
• Motivated by our mission, we’re all racing toward our connected operations vision, and we intend to win—together
• In this role, you will:
• Drive technology choices, implementing services, and/or establishing architectural patterns that have a broad and lasting impact on Samsara's platform
• Identify opportunities and initiate strategic conversations to influence the direction of platform technology and engineering culture
• Architect, design, and develop software that enables Samsara to operate at scale
• Leadership: teams in delivering products and capabilities that contribute to Samsara’s products and revenue
• Delivery: impact by solving the hardest technical problems and enabling products to reach the market quickly and successfully with high quality

Essential requirements and candidate background

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• 12+ years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm-related solutions with at least 4 of those years in an architect or leadership role
• Stellar programming/coding fundamentals
• 4+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems
• 4+ years of experience leading cross-organization projects
• Expertise working with web services at a massive scale deployed on Cloud providers such as AWS, GCP or Azure
• An ideal candidate also:
• Has 15+ years of relevant industry experience in software development
• Enjoys leading and mentoring engineers to think about systems - their life cycles, edge cases, and failure modes
• Enjoys fostering collaboration among engineers with different focuses (frontend, mobile, firmware, vision, ML)
• Is an expert in writing high-quality, performant, and maintainable code in a modern programming language
• Production experience working with Javascript and/or client-side code
• Expertise working on large-scale enterprise software applications
• Ship production-quality software in a environment
• Expert-level knowledge of at-scale stream-processing decision engines
• #LI-Hybrid

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• Advertised location: Bengaluru - BLR1

Benefits mentioned by the employer

• At Samsara, we build for the people who keep the global economy moving
• We want owners, not passengers, which is why our rewards are designed to fuel high-impact builders
• Our compensation program delivers above-market total compensation through a combination of base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity (for eligible roles) in a high-growth public company
• We meaningfully differentiate pay for our top performers, who have the opportunity to earn above-market compensation that can outpace the broader market over time
• Beyond compensation, we provide the foundations that enable long-term success: a flexible, employee-led remote model, a professional development stipend, comprehensive health and parental leave plans, and more
• If you’re ready to build for the long term and own the outcome, your journey starts here
• Flexible Working
• At Samsara, we embrace a flexible working model that caters to the diverse needs of our teams
• Our offices are open for those who prefer to work in-person and we also support remote work where it aligns with our operational requirements
• For certain positions, being close to one of our offices or within a specific geographic area is important to facilitate collaboration, access to resources, or alignment with our service regions
• In these cases, the job description will clearly indicate any working location requirements
• Our goal is to ensure that all members of our team can contribute effectively, whether they are working on-site, in a hybrid model, or fully remotely

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Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Samsara

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Relevant skills

• JavaScript
• AWS
• GCP
• Azure
• AI/ML
• Google Cloud
• firmware
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