Staff Software Engineer, Maps Services

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction of the Maps teams and partner with engineering leadership on major technical investments and tradeoffs.
• Build geospatial systems, integrations, data ingestion and processing pipelines, map-serving systems, and APIs supporting foundational features across Samsara products.
• Scale storage, querying, and computation for real-time location-dependent features.
• Consolidate team-specific geospatial solutions into scalable platform-wide offerings.
• Build agentic solutions that let customers self-serve the data they want to see.
• Raise the technical bar through code reviews, design discussions, mentorship, external talks, open source, and community engagement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of software development experience, including at least 2 years in an architect or technical leadership role.
• Strong programming and software design fundamentals.
• 4+ years working on large-scale distributed systems.
• 4+ years leading technical projects across multiple teams.
• Preferred experience with GIS, spatial analysis, PostGIS, spatial SQL, GeoPandas, Shapely, QGIS, and geospatial data validation.
• Preferred familiarity with GeoParquet, OpenStreetMap, OSM PBF, and ingesting, transforming, validating, or serving geospatial datasets.

Benefits

• Remote role open to candidates based in the US.
• Annual base salary range of $162,400–$290,000 USD, plus eligibility for an initial RSU grant and ongoing refresh opportunities.
• Performance-based bonus or variable pay and equity may be available for eligible roles.
• Flexible employee-led remote work model with offices available for those who prefer in-person work.
• Professional development stipend, comprehensive health plans, parental leave, and other total rewards.