Sr IT Engineer I

About the role:

In Samsara’s Business Technology Core IT team, we work to deliver awesome systems, support, and experiences that enable our teams to be as impactful as possible.  As a member of the team, you’ll be in charge of owning the technology and processes that enable our people to do their best work. We are responsible for identifying, designing, implementing, and supporting the applications to create a streamlined experience for Samsarians. As a Sr IT Engineer on the team, you will be leading the architecture and technical delivery of a wide variety of solutions along with process engineering, automation and directly contributing towards the improvement of employee experience at Samsara. You will be driving strategic & mission-critical initiatives, technology assessment, architecture decisions, and end-to-end solution delivery by partnering with various technology teams and leaders.

This role will be eligible for remote work.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work, this role won’t be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development, countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
• You’re energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative, ambitious ideas for our customers.
• You want to be with the best: At Samsara, we win together, celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a high-calibre team that will encourage you to do your best.

In this role, you will: 

• Evaluate, innovate, develop, implement, and support any variety of internal SaaS Engineering automation systems geared to produce efficiency at scale
• Automate, develop, and support integrations across various business systems, platforms, and tools
• Serve as part of the team of domain experts on implementation, management, and support of Business technology products and IT applications
• Design, develop, support and manage integrations to internal and external systems as required
• Deliver high quality software using development methodologies
• Conduct research and make recommendations on improvements to systems, tools, and processes
• Manage technical requirements gathering, technical gap analysis, and contribute to backlog grooming
• 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

Minimum requirements for the role:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, engineering or related field
• A minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience with Workato and its suite of products
• A minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience with Okta and Google Workspaces
• Proficient working with APIs in Python
• Experience with Workato concepts like callable recipes, event streams, task optimization etc
• Experience with Google Apps Manager (GAM) command line tool
• Ability to spearhead and drive work without supervision across functions and collaborate with all levels of users and management
• Ability to work in a fast-changing, dynamic, and agile environment, including the ability to manage time and maintain an excellent work ethic
• Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations

An ideal candidate also has:

• Exposure to scale in a SaaS-first IT environment (Slack, Zoom, Github, Zendesk, etc)
• Experience with Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence, OpsGenie, StatusPage)
• Knowledge of creating Splunk dashboards and alerts for operationalizing integrations
• Advanced systems/software engineering expertise with Python/Ruby scripting skills.
• Ability to build custom connectors using the Workato Connector SDK.
• Strong experience in various object-oriented programming languages, including but not limited to Go, NodeJS, PHP, Python, Ruby, .NET/C#, C, Java, Perl, and JavaScript.

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