Role Description We are seeking a skilled Data Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will be responsible for building and maintaining integrations, automating data workflows, and ensuring data accuracy and availability across educational platforms. You’ll play a key role in supporting school operations. - Develop and maintain custom integrations and ETL processes between K-12 data and internal/external systems. - Design, implement, and optimize data pipelines. - Collaborate with stakeholders to understand data needs and deliver robust, scalable solutions. - Maintain technical documentation for systems, data models, and processes. - Monitor and troubleshoot data flow issues and respond to API changes. - Participate in cross-functional projects related to school operations, enrollment, attendance, and performance data. - Perform quality assurance (QA) on downstream data to ensure accuracy, consistency, and alignment with customer requirements. Qualifications - 4+ years of experience in a software engineering, data engineering, or SIS specialist role. - Hands-on experience with Student Information Systems or other K-12 platforms, including APIs, data exports/imports, and plugin development. - Strong skills in SQL, Python, and ETL/ELT tools. - Experience working with RESTful APIs, SFTP, and other data exchange methods. - Experience in working with educational data. - Familiarity with data warehousing concepts. - Experience with data quality assurance practices and tools, including validation and reconciliation of datasets. - Strong attention to detail and ability to translate customer data requirements into technical specifications and QA checks. - Ability to work independently in a fully remote position. Benefits - Comprehensive medical benefits with employer contribution to premiums and to HSA accounts. - Additional benefits such as gym reimbursement, pet insurance, free access to the Calm app, Rocket Lawyer and more to help you stay healthy: mind, body, and soul. - We are a fully remote company. We provide a monthly tech stipend to support your WFH needs! - Inclusive benefits to support you and your family, including parental leave, fertility support, adoption, and more! - Invest in your future with our 401(k) plan, which includes an employer match to help you build long-term financial security. - Flexible PTO, paid sick time off, company holidays plus winter break (Dec 24th - Jan 1st). - Newsela offers an annual learning and development allowance to employees to attend external training sessions, classes, workshops, conferences, and educational materials to foster professional growth within their current role and career aspirations at Newsela. - No matter your role or department, the work you do each day helps share the future of education and improves the lives of students and teachers. Company Description Newsela is a leading education technology company dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. We deliver integrated, AI-powered solutions designed to unlock student engagement, empower teachers, and drive meaningful learning outcomes. Our suite of products supports knowledge and skill development, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and data-informed decision-making across K–12 classrooms. Grounded in learning science research, Newsela’s solutions integrate content, assessment, and analytics to help educators track progress, understand student outcomes, and deliver high-impact instruction that supports every learner.

• Design and build scalable, resilient data analytics solutions on GCP. • Propose and implement architectural improvements. • Elicit requirements from business areas and document them. • Familiarity with agile methodologies. • Align the corporate IT environment with business needs, standards, and industry best practices. • Be able to incorporate a data-driven culture into daily work. • Ability to work collaboratively with empathy, to listen and be heard, and to communicate effectively.

• Automate processes for data analysis. • Identify key market variations. • Develop hypotheses in collaboration with business stakeholders. • Publish analyses and dashboards for all levels of the company. • Technically lead a team focused on creating processes and monitoring metrics.

Who we are 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. 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. About the role: Data and Analytics is a critical team within Business Technology. Our mission is to enable integrated data layers for all of Samsara with the insights, tools, infrastructure to make data-driven decisions. We are a growing team that loves all things data — composed of data engineers, architects, analysts, and data scientists. We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer who brings a software engineer's mindset to data infrastructure. This isn't just a pipeline-builder role — we're looking for someone who thinks in systems, builds platforms others can extend, and is excited about pushing the boundaries of what data engineering looks like in an AI-first world. You'll architect Spark-driven workflows at scale, design data platforms as products, and build the next generation of intelligent tooling including MCP servers and AI agents that automate and accelerate data engineering workflows. Our team promotes an agile, collaborative, and supportive environment where diverse thinking, innovative design, and experimentation are welcomed and encouraged. This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US except the San Francisco Bay Metro Area, NYC Metro Area, and Washington, D.C. Metro Area. You should apply if: - You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact — helping keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and 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 and mastery 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. - You want to build platforms, not just pipelines: You think about data infrastructure as a product, care deeply about developer experience, and want to shape how an engineering team works with data at scale. - You're excited about AI-augmented engineering: You want to be at the frontier of how AI agents and intelligent tooling change the way data engineers work. In this role, you will: Data Platform Engineering - Develop and maintain end-to-end data pipelines and backend ingestion workflows, 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 ERP(Netsuite), CRM(Salesforce), Product, Order Flow, and Support ticket data. - Manage critical data pipelines to enable growth initiatives and advanced analytics. - Facilitate data integration and transformation for moving data between applications, ensuring interoperability with data layers and the data lake. - Develop and improve data architecture, data quality, monitoring, observability, and data availability. - Write data transformations in SQL/Python to generate data products consumed by Analytics, Marketing Operations, and Sales Operations teams. Spark & Distributed Systems - Design, build, and operate large-scale Spark and PySpark workflows for batch and streaming data processing across Databricks and cloud environments. - Optimize Spark job performance — tuning partitioning, shuffle, caching, and resource allocation for production-grade reliability and efficiency. Platform & Systems Thinking - Define and enforce data engineering standards, patterns, and best practices across the team. - Design systems with long-term maintainability in mind: clear contracts, testable components, and thoughtful failure modes. - Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to evolve the underlying architecture of Samsara's enterprise data ecosystem. MCP Servers & AI Agents - Build and maintain MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that expose Samsara's data assets and engineering workflows to AI models and internal tooling. - Collaborate with platform teams to integrate agentic workflows into the data engineering lifecycle. - Evaluate and adopt emerging AI-native tooling for data engineering, staying ahead of the curve on how LLMs and agents can accelerate data work. Leadership & Collaboration - 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. - Provide mentorship to junior team members and deliver technical guidance, training, and knowledge-sharing across teams. - Engage directly with internal cross-functional stakeholders to understand their data needs and design scalable solutions. - Lead end-to-end projects as the central point of contact for stakeholders. Minimum requirements for the role: - Bachelor's degree in computer science, data engineering, data science, information technology, or an equivalent engineering program. - 8+ years of work experience as a Software Engineer with data focus or as Data Engineer. - 5+ years of experience building and maintaining large-scale, production-grade end-to-end data pipelines, including Data Modeling. - 5+ years of hands-on Spark / PySpark in a production environment, including job optimization and performance tuning. - Core Engineering Fundamentals: Strong programming capabilities in Python and SQL, combined with cloud data warehouse/lakehouse experience (e.g., Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Databricks, or Apache Iceberg). - Exposure to ETL tools such as Fivetran, DBT, or equivalent. - API experience: Python-based API frameworks for data pipeline ingestion. - RDBMS experience: MySQL, AWS RDS/Aurora, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, or equivalent. - Cloud: AWS, Azure, and/or GCP. An ideal candidate also has experience in: - Designing and governing a centralized semantic layer for reliable AI and analytics - Logging and monitoring experience: Splunk, DataDog, AWS CloudWatch, or equivalent. - AWS Serverless: 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 $118,107.50—$178,650 USD Total Rewards 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. Flexible Working At Samsara, we embrace a flexible working model that caters to the diverse needs of our teams. Our offices are open for those who prefer to work in-person and we also support remote work where it aligns with our operational requirements. For certain positions, being close to one of our offices or within a specific geographic area is important to facilitate collaboration, access to resources, or alignment with our service regions. In these cases, the job description will clearly indicate any working location requirements. Our goal is to ensure that all members of our team can contribute effectively, whether they are working on-site, in a hybrid model, or fully remotely. All offers of employment are contingent upon an individual’s ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the company and in the specified work location, if applicable. Belonging at Samsara At Samsara, we welcome everyone regardless of their background. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, and other characteristics protected by law. We depend on the unique approaches of our team members to help us solve complex problems and want to ensure that Samsara is a place where people from all backgrounds can make an impact. Accommodations Samsara is an inclusive work environment, and we are committed to ensuring equal opportunity in employment for qualified persons with disabilities. Please email accessibleinterviewing@samsara.com or click here if you require any reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process. Our Commitment to Authenticity We use Tofu, a fraud detection tool, to validate the authenticity of applications and protect against identity fraud. This ensures we are connecting with real people and allows us to prioritize genuine candidates. Please see Samsara’s Candidate Privacy Notice for more information. Fraudulent Employment Offers Samsara is aware of scams involving fake job interviews and offers. Please know we do not charge fees to applicants at any stage of the hiring process. 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