About this opportunity
Opportunity Overview
Samsara is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to work on its Infrastructure Platform Security team. This team is responsible for the security, compliance, and evolution of Samsara's public cloud infrastructure. The role involves designing and maintaining highly available, resilient, and secure infrastructure across Samsara's public cloud. The ideal candidate has experience as a DevOps Engineer, Security Engineer, Software Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer, with a strong ability to automate through scripting languages and experience with Infrastructure as Code. The company provides a Connected Operations Cloud platform to help organizations improve their physical operations. Samsara welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and offers a range of benefits. The job is part of a team that is crucial to the company's operations, and the ideal candidate will have a strong ability to work independently and as part of a team. The role is based on a competitive total compensation package, employee-led remote and flexible working, health benefits, and more. The company is looking for someone who can champion its cultural principles as it scales globally and across new offices.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain highly available, resilient and secure infrastructure across Samsara’s public cloud
- Own infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to establish reliable “paved paths” for seamless developer self-service
- Develop and maintain standardized, secure, and reliable base components like “golden images” (AMIs/container images) for fault-tolerant provisioning
- Drive system stability and service quality by embedding reliability best practices directly into development and deployment pipelines
- Ensure service availability by participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation, investigating outages, and contributing to root cause analysis/post-mortems
- Define SLIs/SLOs and build observability tooling to measure and improve service reliability
- Develop and maintain monitoring dashboards, metrics pipelines, and alerting configurations
- Own and lead the technical delivery of engineering projects, ensuring execution meets agreed-upon timelines
- Design and scope solutions, evaluate options and make trade-off decisions to provide accurate effort and complexity recommendations
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles as we scale globally and across new offices
Benefits
- Competitive total compensation package
- Employee-led remote and flexible working
- Health benefits
Requirements & Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, Security Engineer, Software Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer
- 5+ years hands-on experience of Unix or Linux
- 3+ years hands-on experience of public cloud networking engineering
- 3+ years of experience of Identity & Access Management
- Strong ability to automate through scripting languages such as Python, Bash, Go, or similar
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Puppet)
- Experience in implementing and managing containerized applications using Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, with security considerations in mind
- Experience with AWS services such as EC2, EKS, ECS, ECR, IAM
- Understanding of security weaknesses, exploits, attacks and mitigations
How to Apply
- Review the job description and requirements to ensure you are a good fit for the role.
- Prepare your application materials, including your resume and any other required documents.
- Click the Apply button below to submit your application.
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