Staff Software Engineer, Maps Services

Overview

Staff Software Engineer on the Maps team, setting technical direction for Samsara's shared geospatial platform that sources, ingests, enriches and serves map data used across Samsara's product teams.

What you'll do

• Shape the technical direction of the Maps teams.
• Build geospatial systems and integrations that support foundational features across most Samsara products.
• Scale offerings to support storage, query and computational load of the real-time features dependent on them.
• Consolidate existing team-specific geospatial solutions into scalable platform-wide offerings.
• Build agentic solutions that allow customers to self-serve the data they want and see it how they want to see it.
• Raise the technical bar through code reviews, design discussions, and mentorship.
• Partner with engineering leadership on the bets worth making, and be honest about tradeoffs.
• Represent Samsara externally when it makes sense, such as talks, open source, and community engagement with the mapping/geospatial ecosystem.

What you'll 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.

Details

• Remote, open to candidates based in the US.
• Annual base salary range of $162,400 to $290,000 USD; actual base pay depends on city of residence, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
• Eligible for an initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff, plus ongoing refresh opportunities subject to plan terms.
• Full-time employment.