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Salary: USD 154,200 - 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 within the larger Developer Experience organization, responsible for the 'outer-loop' of the software development lifecycle. The team is building an AI-enabled software factory that transforms how code moves from pull request to production. The mission is to eliminate repetitive steps, shorten feedback loops, and help engineers focus on intent. Systems provide AI-assisted PR auto-approvals, risk-aware reviews, and automated workflows that make changes merge-ready. Intelligence extends through CI and CD with AI-assisted deployment checks, production validation, and automatic rollbacks. The goal is to enable engineers to scale productivity by making the outer-loop autonomous while keeping it safe, observable, and reliable.
Key responsibilities include:
- Scale in-house CI/CD systems to meet the needs of a rapidly growing engineering organization and increasing pull-request throughput
- Reduce tech debt using efficient AI workflows that would otherwise be cost prohibitive
- Design and build deployment safeguards that protect production at scale using AI to monitor and fix issues
- Build observability, evaluation, and feedback systems to improve AI-driven automation
- Serve as a thought leader for using AI to increase engineering productivity while maintaining high standards for safety, quality, and signal
- Redefine the outer loop of the SDLC by designing AI-native workflows that increase throughput without compromising reliability
- Push the threshold of what is possible with AI by turning emerging capabilities into safe, observable, production-ready engineering systems
- Partner with product engineering teams to reduce operational toil and make safe, AI-enabled delivery practices easy to adopt
- Keep Samsara at the cutting edge of AI-assisted software development by experimenting boldly, learning quickly, and converting successful experiments into company-wide platforms
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 on developer experience, CI/CD, and/or platform engineering-focused teams
- Experience building AI workflows, orchestration systems, or other harnesses of AI
- 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
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or similar)
- Experience implementing AI-driven automation across the SDLC to reduce developer friction, automate repetitive technical tasks, and accelerate time-to-delivery; routinely applies AI tools across workflow
- High-quality code writing experience (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 candidate also has:
- 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
