Staff Software Engineer, RoutingNew$232K

The opportunity

Are you interested in building solutions that help our customers deliver their cargo safely and efficiently while cutting fleet costs? The Routing team at Samsara is building the world's best products for supporting drivers and empowering dispatchers to orchestrate large fleets of light and heavy vehicles.

What you'll do

  • You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software, firmware, and hardware you build will have real-world impact — helping 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 customers worldwide, you'll work across new and mature technologies that power 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 — you'll join customer interviews, collaborate with customer success and product managers, and use metrics to ensure our work translates into better customer outcomes.

  • You are a team player: Our engineering teams require 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.

  • Architect and own critical systems that span route planning and dispatch: including route optimization algorithms, dispatch state machines, and real-time tracking infrastructure.

What they're looking for

  • Design scalable backend services that handle tracking and execution of: hundreds of thousands of routes in real time, along with reporting and suggested optimizations to better utilize vehicles, drivers, and take optimal routes to accomplish customer work.
  • Build web interfaces and APIs that allow dispatchers and fleet managers to: create, assign, and monitor routes and deliveries for their entire organization from a single pane of glass.
  • Implement integrations with TMS/ERP systems (including legacy systems such as: AS/400 and SAP) that process millions of route events a day.
  • Work closely with PMs, designers, and engineers across time zones to ensure: cohesive product experiences, balancing generic and long-tail customer needs.