Senior Software Engineer II - Route Planning

About the role:

Are you interested in building solutions that help our customers deliver their cargo safely, efficiently and save fleet costs in the process? If so, the Route Planning team might be the right fit for you.

We are a 0-1 team within Samsara that is actively building smart route planning solutions that model our customer’s real world operations such as delivering to hard to reach locations on busy urban streets, maximize their fleet capacity by recommending the right vehicles to use, drive familiar routes or plan for those surprise deliveries, all the while staying compliant with the ever changing rules of commercial navigation

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US and Canada. Relocation assistance will not be provided for this role.

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.

In this role, you will:

• Own the design and implementation of backend services that effortlessly scale no matter size of the fleet
• Work with the product manager and our UX designer closely to design and build intuitive UI interfaces that makes the route planner’s job more efficient
• Partner with the engineering manager and advocate for technical excellence on the team
• Navigate tradeoffs between moving fast and building for the long term using customer impact as the north star
• Act as a simplifier that ensures our solutions are built to serve our diverse customer base
• Communicate your work to not just engineering audiences but also our sales partners to maintain a tight feedback loop
• 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:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Demonstrated ability executing in ambiguous environments and delivering customer value
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

An ideal candidate also has:

• Proven experience shaping and improving routing and navigation products
• A passion for mentoring and helping junior engineers grow
• A track record of thriving in 0→1 teams and scaling them through the post–startup phase
• Experience operating as a tech lead or in a similar technical role directly impacting output of other engineers.
• The ability and willingness to engage directly with customers when needed