Senior Software Engineer II, DevEx

Overview

Samsara is hiring a Senior Software Engineer II for its Developer Experience team, responsible for the outer loop of the SDLC, building an AI-enabled software factory that moves code from pull request to production.

What you'll do

• Help scale in-house CI/CD systems to meet the needs of a growing engineering organization and increasing pull-request throughput.
• Reduce tech debt using efficient AI workflows that would otherwise be cost prohibitive in a non-AI workflow.
• Design and build deployment safeguards that protect production at scale, using AI to monitor and fix issues.
• Build the observability, evaluation, and feedback systems used to improve AI-driven automation.
• Serve as a thought leader for using AI to increase engineering productivity while maintaining a high bar for safety, quality, and signal over AI-generated slop.
• Redefine the outer loop of the SDLC by designing AI-native workflows that increase engineering throughput without compromising reliability.
• Push the threshold of what is possible with AI by turning emerging capabilities into safe, observable, and production-ready engineering systems.
• Partner with product engineering teams to reduce operational toil and make safe, AI-enabled delivery practices easy to adopt across the company, ensuring their specific team needs are met.
• Help keep Samsara at the cutting edge of AI-assisted software development by experimenting boldly, learning quickly, and converting successful experiments into platforms used across the company.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of experience designing and building products in a software engineering team.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience working on developer experience, CI/CD and/or platform engineering-focused teams.
• Experience in building AI workflows, orchestration systems or other harnesses of AI.
• Proven track record in architecting CI/CD systems, build and deploy platforms, and automated response workflows, Buildkite (or equivalent BYOC software).
• Proven experience working on large-scale enterprise software applications.
• Experience in building and maintaining a large organization's Software Development Life Cycle (DevEx).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or the like).
• Experience in implementing AI-driven automation across the SDLC to reduce developer friction, automate repetitive technical tasks, and accelerate time-to-delivery.
• Routinely applies AI tools across your workflow.
• Experienced at writing high-quality code (Go, Python, or equivalent) focused on infrastructure, deployment, and operations challenges.
• Experienced orchestrating multiple AI agents en-masse to tackle complex (non one-off) tasks.
• Strong leadership and direction setting skills. Visionary as a tech lead. Able to set a high standard for peers, and keep it.

Nice to have

• Forward thinking about the capabilities of AI, an advocate for AI usage.
• Experience with building in-house CI/CD systems.
• Experienced with building for FedRAMP, StateRAMP or other compliance requirements.

Details

• Remote position open to candidates residing in the United States.
• Relocation assistance will not be provided.
• Annual base salary range of $154,700 to $260,000 USD, which may vary by city of residence, skills, and experience.
• Eligible for an initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff and ongoing refresh opportunities, subject to plan terms.