Staff Software Engineer - Identity and Access Management (IAM) at Samsara

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, Equipment Monitoring, and Site Visibility. 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:

Samsara is seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to play a leading role in our Identity and Access Management (IAM)  team. The teams goal is to secure our cloud, mobile and embedded software and infrastructure through a secure development lifecycle, including threat models, security architecture and reviews, continuous integration & deployment, and pentesting. We enable the success of Samsaras customers by protecting their data as a precious and privileged resource. We accelerate Samsaras innovation by making Security easy at all stages of work. We protect Samsara’s reputation by continually anticipating and remediating risk.

You’ll be a thought leader on a team that maintains the identity and access management features of our platform, the security and compliance of our infrastructure and our secure software development lifecycle. You’ll make decisions with a significant impact on Samsara. There is a lot of work to do to protect our customers and business against risk, and we’d love for you to be part of it.

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US except the San Francisco Bay Metro Area, NYC Metro Area, and Washington, D.C. Metro Area.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software, firmware, and hardware you build will result in real-world impact—helping to 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 our global customers, you will work on a range of new and mature technologies driving scalable innovation for customers across industries driving the worlds 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 and you will have the opportunity to participate in customer interviews, collaborate with customer success and product managers, and use metrics to ensure our work is translating into better customer outcomes.

• You are a team player: Working on our Samsara Engineering teams requires 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.

In this role, you will: 

• Lead organization-wide projects and develop tools that improve the security and compliance posture of our platform

• Deliver impact by solving the hardest security and compliance problems and enabling products to reach the market quickly and successfully

• Identify and guide prioritization of opportunities for improvement to our security tools and processes

• Increase visibility and knowledge of security best practices to raise the bar across the company

• Act as a multiplier for the team, elevating the impact and output of every team member

• Influence the vision and roadmap for security and compliance to support our rapid growth

• Represent Samsara in external-facing forums: writing on our engineering blog, speaking at conferences, collaborating with vendors

• 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:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience

• Deep subject matter expertise in authentication and authorization in multi-tenant platforms

• 12+ years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions with at least 4 of those years in an architect or leadership role

• Demonstrated ability to ship production-quality software in a dynamic environment

• Expertise working with web services at massive scale deployed on Cloud providers such as AWS or Azure

• Is an expert in writing high quality, performant and maintainable code in a modern programming language

• Know your way around a UNIX shell and a Linux operating system

An ideal candidate also has:

• Has 15+ years of relevant industry experience in software development.

• Has experience working with processes that scale well for a team of 500+ engineers

• Has experience influencing a company’s product and infrastructure security strategy

• Enjoys leading and mentoring engineers to think about systems - their life cycles, edge cases, and failure modes.

• Enjoys enabling cross-functional collaboration between product, finance, and engineers with different focuses (frontend, mobile, firmware, computer vision, ML)