Data API Engineer - Samsara

About the role:

Samsara Technologies India Private Limited is looking for a Data and Analytics is a critical team within Business Technology. Our mission is to enable integrated data layers for all of Samsara and Samsara customers with the insights, tools, infrastructure and consultation to make data-driven decisions. We are a growing team that loves all things data! The team will be composed of data engineers, architects, analysts and data scientists. We are passionate about leveraging world-class data and analytics to deliver a great customer experience.  

Our team promotes an agile, collaborative, supportive environment where diverse thinking, innovative design, and experimentation are welcomed and encouraged.

This is a hybrid position requiring 3 days per week in our Bangalore office and 2 days working remotely. Relocation assistance will not be provided for this role

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-caliber team that will encourage you to do your best. 

In this role, you will:

• Develop and maintain data product APIs, backend ingestion pipelines and participate in the build of Samsara’s Data Platform to enable advanced automation and analytics.
• 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.
• Manage critical data pipelines to enable our growth initiatives and advanced analytics.
• Facilitate data integration and transformation requirements for moving data between applications; ensuring interoperability of applications with data layers and data lake.
• Develop and improve the current data architecture, data quality, monitoring, observability and data availability.
• Write data transformations in SQL/Python to generate data products consumed by customer systems and Analytics, Marketing Operations, Sales Operations teams.
• 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, data engineering, data science, information technology, or equivalent engineering program.
• 5+ years of work experience as a data engineer or software engineer, including 3+ years of experience in designing, developing, testing, and maintaining REST APIs. 
• Experience with modern cloud-based data-lake and data-warehousing technology stacks, and familiarity with typical data-engineering tools, ETL/ELT, and data-warehousing processes and best practices.
• Experience with the following:
• Languages: Python, SQL.
• API: FastAPI, FlaskAPI, or equivalent. Swagger.
• RDBMS: MySQL, AWS RDS/Aurora MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL-Server or equivalent.
• Cloud: AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Data warehouse: Databricks, Google Big Query, AWS Redshift, Snowflake or equivalent.

An ideal candidate has:

• Comfortable in working with business customers to gather requirements and gain a deep understanding of varied datasets.
• 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.
• ETL and Orchestration Experience.
• Fivetran, Alteryx or equivalent.
• Apache Airflow, Dagster or equivalent.
• Logging and Monitoring: One or more of Splunk, DataDog, AWS Cloudwatch or equivalent.
• AWS Serverless: AWS API Gateway, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, SecretsManager.
• Other: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECR, AWS Fargate, AWS IAM.

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