Staff Engineer – Telematics

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Collaborate closely with customers and customer-facing teams to identify unmet needs, validate assumptions, and uncover opportunities.

• Establish success metrics with Product and Design prior to committing to solutions.

• Guide ambiguous projects from the discovery phase and prototypes through to production rollout, adoption, and iteration.

• Utilize customer feedback and product data to determine what enhancements, expansions, or discontinuations are necessary.

• Develop and deploy code across services, APIs, and customer-facing interfaces.

• Define technical direction and make practical architectural decisions.

• Take ownership of production quality, accuracy, reliability, performance, and safe deployments.

• Leverage operational insights to manage constraints as usage increases.

• Enhance engineering effectiveness through design and code reviews, mentoring senior engineers, and eliminating delivery hurdles.

• Provide context and decisions to enable others to work autonomously.

• Promote and integrate Samsara’s cultural principles within the team.

• Recruit, develop, and lead a diverse, engaged, and high-performing team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in launching customer-facing products and expanding them beyond initial rollout.

• Ability to articulate contributions to measurable outcomes such as adoption, revenue growth, retention, customer efficiency, or cost to serve.

• Strong product judgment and experience in direct customer engagement.

• Expertise in clarifying poorly defined issues and making data-driven decisions.

• Extensive hands-on software engineering skills.

• Recent experience in designing, implementing, and managing production systems.

• Capacity to transition from prototype to maintainable software while explaining trade-offs.

• Experience in scaling products and the underlying systems.

• Ability to identify constraints, balance speed with reliability, and make technical investments that support growth.

• Technical leadership that spans team boundaries, with the ability to foster alignment without formal authority.

• Proficient in communicating difficult decisions clearly to both technical and business stakeholders.

• Experience in developing B2B software during an early growth phase, or in routing, workforce management, or software for physical operations is beneficial but not mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive total compensation that exceeds market standards, including base salary, performance-based bonuses/variable pay, and equity for eligible positions.

• Flexible, employee-driven remote work model.

• Professional development stipend available.

• Comprehensive health insurance options.

• Parental leave policies.

• Flexible working arrangements.

• Office spaces available for employees who prefer in-person work.

• Remote work support aligned with operational needs.