Sr. Data Ops Engineer
SamsaraRemote
INTERN
Posted June 30, 2026
$113k - $146k
Climate Technology
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Job Description
At Samsara, we embrace a flexible working model that caters to the diverse needs of our teams.
Key Responsibilities
- The Integrations, Data Engineering and AI (IDEA) team within Samsara’s Business Technology organization is looking for a Data Operations Engineer to join our team. We enable various teams at Samsara to leverage data and AI to make data-driven decisions by delivering reliable integrations, APIs and data platforms for trustworthy data & analytics. We are a team that are passionate about leveraging quality data and AI to deliver a great customer experience. Our team promotes an agile, collaborative, supportive environment where diverse thinking, innovative design, and experimentation is welcomed and encouraged.
- The Data Operations Engineer will be responsible for the health, stability, and performance of our production data platform, including data ingestion pipelines, processing jobs, and data warehousing. This role requires a blend of data engineering skills and operational rigor to ensure high availability and data quality for downstream consumers and business intelligence.
- Incident Response: Serve as a primary responder for production data incidents, quickly diagnosing root causes, implementing fixes, and ensuring data integrity.
- Monitoring and Alerting: Design, implement, and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for all production data pipelines and infrastructure.
- Pipeline Management: Manage, deploy, and maintain data and integrations pipelines and APIs.
- Performance Optimization: Continuously identify and implement optimizations to improve the speed, scalability, and efficiency of data processing jobs and API performance.
- Data Quality: Develop and enforce data validation and quality checks within the pipelines to minimize errors and inconsistencies in production data.
- Infrastructure: Collaborate with DevOps teams on managing the underlying infrastructure (AWS components) that hosts the data platform.
- Documentation: Maintain comprehensive and up-to-date documentation for all operational procedures, pipeline architectures, and troubleshooting runbooks.
- Communicate incident status and SLA reports to management.
- Develop & deploy data pipelines, backend ingestion or integration jobs to support minor enhancements and bug fixes.
- Work with data from a variety of sources including but not limited to: CRM data, Product data, Marketing data, Order flow data, Support ticket volume data, Finance data etc.
- 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
- A Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data engineering, data science, information technology, or equivalent engineering program.
- 5+ years of experience in a Data Engineering, Data Operations, or SRE role supporting production data environments & user support on data issues.
- Must have SQL experience to perform data analysis
- Experience with the following:
- Problem-Solving: Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to navigate complex distributed systems.
- Comfortable in working with business users to assist with incidents and communicate proactively.
- Engage directly with internal cross-functional stakeholders to understand their data challenges and provide targeted solutions.
- A self-starter, motivated, responsible, innovative and technology-driven person who performs well both solo and as a team member.
- A proactive problem solver and have good communication as well as project management skills to relay your findings and solutions across technical and non technical audiences.
- Logging and Monitoring: One or more of Splunk, DataDog, AWS Cloudwatch or equivalent.
- AWS Serverless: AWS API Gateway, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, SecretsManager.
- The range of annual base salary for full-time employees for this position is below. Please note that base pay offered may vary depending on factors including your city of residence, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role is also eligible for an initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff, and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance, subject to plan terms and conditions. Learn more about our total rewards and benefits below.
- Annual Base Salary
- $112,625
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- $145,750 USD
Benefits & Perks
- At Samsara, we build for the people who keep the global economy moving. We want owners, not passengers, which is why our rewards are designed to fuel high-impact builders. Our compensation program delivers above-market total compensation through a combination of base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity (for eligible roles) in a high-growth public company. We meaningfully differentiate pay for our top performers, who have the opportunity to earn above-market compensation that can outpace the broader market over time.
- Beyond compensation, we provide the foundations that enable long-term success: a flexible, employee-led remote model, a professional development stipend, comprehensive health and parental leave plans, and more. If you’re ready to build for the long term and own the outcome, your journey starts here.
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