Responsibilities
- Design and build end-to-end Forms features across web, mobile, backend services, and platform integrations.
- Lead technical projects from discovery through rollout, including architecture, implementation, testing, observability, and launch.
- Improve the scalability, reliability, and extensibility of the Forms platform as usage grows across customers and product areas.
- Partner with Product and Design to turn customer needs into simple, powerful workflows for field and operations teams.
- Raise engineering quality through thoughtful code reviews, testing strategy, operational excellence, and mentorship.
- 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
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong experience building production web applications and backend services.
- Proficiency in at least one backend language (Go, Java, C#, or equivalent).
- Ability to lead complex, ambiguous projects across multiple systems and stakeholders.
- Strong product judgment and a customer-focused approach to engineering tradeoffs.
- Experience designing APIs, data models, permissions, and scalable service boundaries.
- Comfort mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction without relying on authority.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work closely with Product, Design, and cross-functional partners.
Nice to Have
- Experience with React, TypeScript, Go, GraphQL, or mobile-backed product workflows.
- Experience building configurable platforms, workflow builders, forms, automations, or low-code/no-code tools.
- Experience with operational products used by frontline workers.
- Experience improving reliability, observability, and performance of customer-facing systems.
Team
Structure: The Forms team builds Samsara’s digital forms platform, helping customers replace paper-based operational workflows with configurable, mobile-first forms. Forms power critical work across safety, compliance, maintenance, operations, and field workflows, enabling drivers and frontline teams to collect structured data, trigger automations, and give back-office teams real-time visibility. This team works across the full stack, including the Samsara dashboard, mobile experiences, backend services, workflow automation, permissions, reporting, and integrations with broader Samsara platform systems.
Additional Information
- This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US except Alaska, Austin Metro, Boulder Metro, California, Chicago Metro, Connecticut, Dallas Metro, Denver Metro, Houston Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Seattle Metro, and Washington, D.C.
