Job description
<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Who we are</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 300; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, which is a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations. At Samsara, we are helping improve the safety, efficiency and sustainability of the physical operations that power our global economy. Representing more than 40% of global GDP, these industries are the infrastructure of our planet, including agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing — and we are excited to help digitally transform their operations at scale.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 300; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Working at Samsara means you’ll help define the future of physical operations and be on a team that’s shaping an exciting array of product solutions, including Video-Based Safety, Vehicle Telematics, Apps and Driver Workflows, and Equipment Monitoring. As part of a recently public company, you’ll have the autonomy and support to make an impact as we build for the long term.</span></p></div><p><strong>About the role:</strong></p> <p>We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build the core platform that will make Samsara “agentic.” This platform
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74 / 100 honest fit
Daniel is a strong backend/platform fit: he builds Python backend services, APIs, and automation on AWS (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB) with heavy CI/CD and test discipline, and — crucially for an Agent Foundations role — he is a daily LLM/agentic-dev power user who has shipped roughly a dozen production apps end-to-end with Claude Code. The honest gap is that his professional agentic work is self-directed/independent rather than building an agent platform for others at scale, and his cloud experience centers on AWS primitives rather than large distributed multi-tenant systems.
Tailored resume highlights
- Ships production full-stack services end-to-end using LLM/agentic tooling (Claude Code) as a core engineering workflow — going from idea to deployed, monitored service in days, directly relevant to building an internal 'agentic' platform.
- Designed and operates a suite of production Flask/Python web apps on a self-hosted Linux server behind Cloudflare tunnels (gunicorn, hardened endpoints, per-IP rate limiting, automated cron pipelines, self-healing watchdogs) serving real organic traffic.
- Built and optimized backend services, REST APIs, and validation pipelines on AWS (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB) for connected/IoT medical devices, ensuring reliable data delivery and scalable processing.
- Developed Python automation frameworks integrated into Jenkins CI/CD, enabling reproducible deployments and reducing manual regression/integration effort by 40% while increasing test reliability.
- Led root-cause analysis of complex, cross-team field-found defects — reproducing rare issues in-house and driving resolution across embedded and cloud components in safety-critical, regulated software.
"Why this company?" (draft — personalize before sending)
Samsara's Agent Foundations role sits right where my work already is. I use Claude Code and agentic tooling every day and have shipped about a dozen production Python services with it, so building the platform that makes Samsara agentic is genuinely the problem I'd want to solve. My backend/AWS/CI-CD and test work maps to platform engineering, and Samsara's connected-operations and IoT focus lines up with the connected-device backends I've built at Medtronic. Coming from safety-critical medical software, I care about reliability on infrastructure other engineers depend on.
Cover letter (review before sending)
Dear Samsara Hiring Team,
I'm excited to apply for the Senior Software Engineer I role on Agent Foundations. Building the core platform that makes Samsara agentic is exactly where my recent work has been heading. Day to day, I ship production full-stack Python services end-to-end using LLM/agentic tooling (Claude Code) as a core part of my engineering workflow — I've built and now operate roughly a dozen live Flask apps on a self-hosted Linux server, hardened behind Cloudflare with rate limiting, cron data pipelines, and self-healing watchdogs.
Professionally, I build backend services, REST APIs, and automation on AWS (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB) with strong CI/CD and test coverage. My background is safety-critical, regulated medical-device software, where reliability and correctness are requirements, not features — a mindset I'd bring to a platform other engineers depend on. Samsara's connected-operations and IoT focus also lines up closely with the connected-device backends I've worked on.
I'd welcome the chance to help build agent infrastructure at Samsara.
Sincerely,
Daniel Maynard
ATS keywords you have but should add
agenticLLMAI agentsplatform engineeringIoTdistributed systemsGo (Golang)KubernetesgRPCobservability/monitoringscalability
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