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Samsara Inc. is on a mission to increase the sustainability of the operations that power the global economy. The company pioneers the Connected Operations Cloud

Senior Data Ops Engineer

Location

Canada

Posted

5 days ago

Salary

$112.6K - $145.8K / year

Seniority

Senior

Job Description

Senior Data Ops Engineer

Samsara

• Serve as a primary responder for production data incidents, quickly diagnosing root causes, implementing fixes, and ensuring data integrity. • Design, implement, and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for all production data pipelines and infrastructure. • Manage, deploy, and maintain data and integrations pipelines and APIs. • Continuously identify and implement optimizations to improve the speed, scalability, and efficiency of data processing jobs and API performance. • Develop and enforce data validation and quality checks within the pipelines to minimize errors and inconsistencies in production data. • Collaborate with DevOps teams on managing the underlying infrastructure (AWS components) that hosts the data platform. • 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.

Job 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 Python or similar scripting language.
  • Exposure to ETL tools such as Fivetran, DBT, Workato or equivalent.
  • Exposure to python based API frameworks, API management tools.
  • RDBMS: MySQL, AWS RDS/Aurora MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle or equivalent.
  • Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • Data warehouse: Databricks, Google Big Query, AWS Redshift, Snowflake or equivalent.
  • CI/CD, DevOps tools and practices.

Benefits

  • Flexible working model
  • Professional development stipend
  • Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
  • Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff
  • Ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance

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