Senior Data Engineer
Company: Samsara
Location: Washington
Posted on: January 2, 2026
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Job Description:
Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™
Cloud, which is a platform that enables organizations that depend
on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to
develop actionable insights and improve their operations. At
Samsara, we are helping improve the safety, efficiency and
sustainability of the physical operations that power our global
economy. Representing more than 40% of global GDP, these industries
are the infrastructure of our planet, including agriculture,
construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing —
and we are excited to help digitally transform their operations at
scale. Working at Samsara means you’ll help define the future of
physical operations and be on a team that’s shaping an exciting
array of product solutions, including Video-Based Safety, Vehicle
Telematics, Apps and Driver Workflows, and Equipment Monitoring. As
part of a recently public company, you’ll have the autonomy and
support to make an impact as we build for the long term. About the
role: We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our team. Data and
Analytics is a critical team within Business Technology. Our
mission is to enable integrated data layers for all of Samsara and
Samsara customers with the insights, tools, infrastructure and
consultation to make data driven decisions. We are a growing team
that loves all things data! The team will be composed of data
engineers, architects, analysts and data scientists. We are
passionate about leveraging world class data and analytics to
deliver a great customer experience. Our team promotes an agile,
collaborative, supportive environment where diverse thinking,
innovative design, and experimentation is welcomed and encouraged.
This role is open to candidates residing in the US and Canada
except San Francisco Bay Area and New York Metro City. You should
apply if: • You want to impact the industries that run our world:
Your efforts will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the
lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and most
importantly, ensure workers return home safely. • You are the
architect of your own career: If you put in the work, this role
won’t be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success
and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development,
countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a
hyper growth environment. • You’re energized by our opportunity:
The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy
requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative,
ambitious ideas for our customers. • You want to be with the best:
At Samsara, we win together, celebrate together and support each
other. You will be surrounded by a high-caliber team that will
encourage you to do your best. In this role, you will: • Develop
and maintain E2E data pipelines, backend ingestion and participate
in the build of Samsara’s Data Platform to enable advanced
automation and analytics. • Work with data from a variety of
sources including but not limited to: CRM data, Product data,
Marketing data, Order flow data, Support ticket volume data. •
Manage critical data pipelines to enable our growth initiatives and
advanced analytics. • Facilitate data integration and
transformation requirements for moving data between applications;
ensuring interoperability of applications with data layers and data
lake. • Develop and improve the current data architecture, data
quality, monitoring, observability and data availability. • Write
data transformations in SQL/Python to generate data products
consumed by customer systems and Analytics, Marketing Operations,
Sales Operations teams. • 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: • A Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data engineering,
data science, information technology, or equivalent engineering
program. • 8 years of work experience as a Data Engineer • 3 years
of experience in building/maintaining a large-scale
production-grade end-to-end data pipelines, including Data
Modeling. • Experience with modern cloud-based data-lake and
data-warehousing technology stacks, and familiarity with typical
data-engineering tools, ETL/ELT, and data-warehousing processes and
best practices. • Experience with leading end-to-end projects,
including being the central point of contact to stakeholders. •
Provide mentorship to junior team members, and provide technical
guidance, training, and knowledge-sharing across teams. • Engage
directly with internal cross-functional stakeholders to understand
their data needs and design scalable solutions. • Experience with
the following: • 3 years in Python, SQL. • Exposure to ETL tools
such as Fivetran, DBT or equivalent. • API: Exposure to python
based API frameworks for data pipelines. • RDBMS: MySQL, AWS
RDS/Aurora MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL-Server or equivalent.
• Cloud: AWS, Azure and/or GCP. • Data warehouse: Databricks,
Google Big Query, AWS Redshift, Snowflake or equivalent. An ideal
candidate also has: • Comfortable in working with business
customers to gather requirements and gain a deep understanding of
varied datasets. • Familiarity working with Spark/PySpark and
Terraform • A self-starter, motivated, responsible, innovative and
technology-driven person who performs well both solo and as a team
member. • A proactive problem solver and have good communication as
well as project management skills to relay your findings and
solutions across technical and non technical audiences. • Logging
and Monitoring: One or more of Splunk, DataDog, AWS Cloudwatch or
equivalent. • AWS Serverless: AWS API Gateway, Lambda, S3, SNS,
SQS, SecretsManager.
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