Staff Software Engineer, Maps Services

About the Role

Maps are part of nearly everything Samsara builds. Vehicles, routes, sites, assets, and safety workflows all depend on knowing where things are and how the physical world fits together. The Maps team is building the shared geospatial platform that makes that possible.

We source, ingest, enrich, and serve the map data that Samsara's product teams use every day: from road networks and points of interest to addresses, boundaries, and customer-specific map context. We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help set the technical direction for this platform across the geospatial stack: building data ingestion and processing pipelines, modeling and serving map data, improving map matching and routing foundations, and creating APIs that make spatial capabilities reusable across Samsara.

Responsibilities

• Shape the technical direction of the Maps teams
• Build geospatial systems and integrations that support foundational features across most Samsara products
• Scale offerings to support storage, query, and computational load of real-time features
• Consolidate existing team-specific geospatial solutions into scalable platform-wide offerings
• Build agentic solutions that allow customers to self-serve data
• Raise the technical bar through code reviews, design discussions, and mentorship
• Partner with engineering leadership on key technical bets and evaluate tradeoffs
• Represent Samsara externally when applicable (talks, open source, community engagement)

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years building software, with at least 2 years in an architect or technical leadership role
• Strong programming and design fundamentals
• 4+ years working on large-scale distributed systems
• 4+ years leading technical projects across multiple teams

Nice to Have

• Experience with GIS technologies and spatial analysis, including PostGIS, spatial SQL, GeoPandas/Shapely, QGIS, and geospatial data validation
• Familiarity with geospatial data formats and open mapping ecosystems, including GeoParquet, OpenStreetMap (OSM), and OSM PBF; experience ingesting, transforming, validating, or serving these datasets
• Comfort working in ambiguity and getting teams aligned without needing formal authority