Senior Software Engineer II, Developer Experience, Operational Excellence
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SamsaraConnected Operations Cloud
US and Canada, Eastern Time ZoneFull-TimeSenior
Salary154700 - 208000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSPythonGCPGoGrafanaTerraformDatadog
Requirements
- 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 in infrastructure and/or platform engineering-focused teams
- Expertise in Observability and reliability, operational metrics, and data analysis
- Proven track record in architecting monitoring frameworks, SLO platforms, and automated response workflows
- Experience with Datadog (or equivalent observability tooling like New Relic, Grafana)
- Proven experience working on large-scale enterprise software applications
- Experience in Developer Experience (DevEx) & Internal Portals
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or the like)
- Experience in implementing AI-driven automation across the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Experienced at writing high-quality code (Go, Python, or equivalent)
- Experience mentoring and supporting engineers and role modeling engineering practices within a technical lead capacity
- Proactive growth mindset
Responsibilities
- Design and build automated reliability and self-healing systems that protect production at scale, including automated rollbacks, deploy safeguards, and fault mitigation, and deliver them as platform tooling.
- Own and improve incident management tooling and on-call health, reducing alert noise and surfacing actionable signals.
- Develop and evolve observability infrastructure, including monitoring, alerting, SLOs, and performance regression detection.
- Contribute to AI-driven operational tooling that goes beyond triage, building toward autonomous remediation.
- Drive incident prevention by identifying systemic patterns and ruthlessly eliminating operational toil.
- Partner directly with product engineering teams to diagnose reliability gaps, reduce their operational burden, and help them adopt best practices.
- Define and champion operational excellence best practices across engineering through guardrails, scorecards, and standards.
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles.
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