Senior Software Engineer I - Agent Foundations

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build the core platform that will make Samsara "agentic." This platform enables agentic development across the company by coordinating intelligent agents to automate complex tasks. You’ll work on a foundational system that scales from a small set of specialized agents today to dozens of agents in production over the next year. This is zero-to-one work: you will help define core primitives, solve hard systems problems, and build service components that other teams will rely on.

You will work on the full stack behind the agents including: greenfield products, modalities, internal tooling, evaluations, and observability. Our final interview stage is a full-day, in-person onsite at our SF office. This is an exciting opportunity to collaborate face-to-face with our senior technical leaders and dive deep into the hard problems we are solving.

Responsibilities

• Build core infrastructure for multi-agent orchestration, including task planning, coordination, execution, and recovery
• Define and implement platform primitives and abstractions that enable internal teams to build and deploy new agents
• Design reliable backend services and APIs for agent discovery, state management, scheduling, and observability
• Architect systems to support scale, resilience, and long-running workflows across multiple concurrent agents
• Collaborate with internal teams building agents to refine APIs, tooling, and operational feedback loops
• Drive technical decisions in a high-ambiguity, early-stage environment where requirements evolve rapidly
• Own systems end to end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production operation
• 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

Requirements

• 4+ years of Software Engineering experience
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building production systems
• Senior-level experience with high-scale backend or distributed systems
• Proficiency in Python
• Strong system design skills and production reliability mindset
• Comfortable working across the stack as needed
• Ability to operate in fast-moving, ambiguous environments