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Salary: USD 154,700 - 260,000 / annual
Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, a platform enabling organizations to harness IoT data for actionable insights across physical operations including agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing.
You will join the Developer Experience team to build an AI-enabled software factory that transforms how Samsara moves code from pull request to production. The team is responsible for the 'outer-loop' of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), working with AI to eliminate repetitive steps, shorten feedback loops, and help engineers focus on intent. You'll work on AI-assisted PR auto-approvals, risk-aware reviews, automated workflows, AI-assisted deployment checks, production validation, and automatic rollbacks. The north star is "Merge and forget" — enabling engineers to scale productivity while keeping systems safe, observable, and reliable.
Key responsibilities include:
- Scaling in-house CI/CD systems to support rapidly increasing pull-request throughput
- Reducing tech debt through efficient AI workflows
- Designing deployment safeguards that protect production at scale using AI monitoring and remediation
- Building observability, evaluation, and feedback systems to improve AI-driven automation
- Serving as a thought leader for using AI to increase engineering productivity while maintaining high standards for safety and quality
- Redefining the outer loop of the SDLC with AI-native workflows that increase throughput without compromising reliability
- Pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI by converting emerging capabilities into safe, production-ready engineering systems
- Partnering with product engineering teams to reduce operational toil and make AI-enabled delivery practices easy to adopt company-wide
- Experimenting boldly with emerging AI capabilities, learning quickly, and converting successful experiments into company-wide platforms
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience designing and building products in software engineering teams
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years of experience on developer experience, CI/CD, and/or platform engineering-focused teams
- Experience building AI workflows, orchestration systems, or other AI harnesses
- Proven track record 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 building and maintaining a large organization's Software Development Life Cycle (DevEx)
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or similar)
- Experience implementing AI-driven automation across the SDLC to reduce developer friction, automate repetitive tasks, and accelerate time-to-delivery; routinely applies AI tools across your workflow
- Experience writing high-quality code (Go, Python, or equivalent) focused on infrastructure, deployment, and operations challenges
- Experience orchestrating multiple AI agents en-mass to tackle complex (non one-off) tasks
- Strong leadership and direction-setting skills; visionary as a tech lead; able to set and maintain high standards for peers
Ideal candidates also have:
- Forward-thinking perspective on AI capabilities; advocate for AI usage
- Experience building in-house CI/CD systems
- Experience building for FedRamp, StateRamp, or other compliance requirements
