Senior Software Engineer - Commercial Navigation

About the Role

Commercial Navigation helps fleets turn planned work into guided trips that are safe, efficient, and visible to the people running the operation. We build navigation inside the Samsara Driver app and the supporting experiences around it: mobile guidance on the road, session review for fleet managers, fuel-aware routing, and safety-focused improvements that show up where drivers actually drive.

We are looking for a product-minded senior engineer who can own ambiguous problems end to end, make practical tradeoffs across surfaces, and ship work that holds up in the field. You will contribute across mobile, backend services, and web as needed, with judgment about what matters most for customers.

Responsibilities

• Own Features End to End: Take full ownership of navigation initiatives from design through production rollout, including follow-up on quality, adoption, and customer impact after launch.
• Deliver with High Engineering Standards: Write maintainable, well-tested code and hold a high bar in design and code review. Use modern development tools, including AI-assisted workflows, with sound judgment. Improve observability, testing, and the systems that keep navigation reliable in production.
• Build Across the Product: Design and ship features across mobile, backend services, and web—driver navigation experiences, admin visibility, optimized routing, and safety-focused navigation capabilities.
• Turn Ambiguity into Action: Clarify what you are building and why: learn from fleet managers and drivers, align with the product team on priorities, define success metrics, plan milestones, and raise risks and tradeoffs before they become surprises.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and partners in Maps, Telematics, and adjacent teams to deliver cohesive navigation experiences end to end.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years of experience
• Proven experience shipping customer-facing software in production across multiple surfaces (e.g. mobile, web, and/or backend services), with depth in at least one and the ability to contribute effectively in the others
• Comfortable using AI development tools with judgment in day-to-day engineering

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building mobile applications, including React Native, Swift, or Kotlin
• Experience shipping and maintaining features over several years, demonstrating long-term ownership
• Domain expertise in logistics, industrial IoT, mobile apps for drivers/field workers, or familiarity with geospatial/mapping technologies