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Job Description
About the role:
With over 50 million minutes of customer video ingested into our backend each year, the Media Platform team is developing and managing a robust infrastructure that supports high-volume media processing, storage, and streaming services. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in software engineering, excellent communication skills, and a passion for working in a collaborative environment alongside a team of expert engineers.
You should apply if:
- You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software, firmware, and hardware you build will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
- You want to build for scale: With over 2.3 million IoT devices deployed to our global customers, you will work on a range of new and mature technologies driving scalable innovation for customers across industries driving the world's physical operations.
- 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 believe customers are more than a number: Samsara engineers enjoy a rare closeness to the end user and you will have the opportunity to participate in customer interviews, collaborate with customer success and product managers, and use metrics to ensure our work is translating into better customer outcomes.
- 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.
Click here to learn about what we value at Samsara.
In this role, you will:
- Solve complex problems and own the success of your solutions as you architect, build, test, and deliver video, image, and streaming infrastructure.
- Communicate, collaborate, and develop with engineers, platform/infrastructure teams, product managers, designers, and support teams.
- Build upon skills and knowledge across a range of technologies, such as Go, GraphQL, Typescript, React, and DynamoDB. Previous experience with these technologies is not required.
- Own the operational health of production systems as we build for the future scale of an ever-growing library of media assets.
- Make an impact on our core architecture, roadmap, and the wider engineering community.
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.
Minimum requirements for the role:
- 4+ years of experience in software development.
- Experience shipping features that are used by customers and iterate on customer feedback to inform what to deliver next.
- Strong communication skills and a desire to collaborate. You can explain why you build something a certain way and be open to suggestions from other engineers and stakeholders.
- A growth mindset and excitement around building new skills and expertise.
- Should be a quick learner and operate with minimum supervision.
- Comfort with building out end-to-end solutions. A preference for front-end or back-end development is okay, but you’ll need to be happy working across the stack.
- Assist in maintaining the production systems your team owns and provide operational support when necessary.
An ideal candidate also has:
- Profound knowledge in full-stack software engineering, specifically in building scalable applications for media processing and streaming.
- Expertise in using backend and frontend technologies to build seamless, high-performance media applications.
- Exceptional problem-solving abilities and meticulous attention to detail.
- Strong communication skills for effective teamwork and project collaboration.
- Enthusiastic and committed to innovating in a fast-paced and dynamic team environment.