Job Description
An Engineering Manager role leading the Operational Excellence and Release Management teams at Samsara, focusing on building reliable, scalable infrastructure and tooling for the Connected Operations Cloud, with an emphasis on automation, AI integration, and operational best practices to support global IoT solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the engineering team, shaping culture and providing technical guidance
- Build infrastructure to ensure reliability of Samsara’s connected operations cloud under high loads
- Develop tooling for product teams to self-manage and operate their services efficiently
- Create abstractions for developers to monitor service health and adopt best practices
- Contribute to the infrastructure roadmap and champion operational excellence
- Hire, develop, and lead an inclusive, high-performing engineering team
Requirements
- 8 years of relevant software engineering work experience
- 2 years of hands-on technical management experience
- 2 years experience building platforms and managing multiple stakeholders
- Experience working with geo-distributed teams
- Deep knowledge of operating distributed systems at large scale and implementation best practices
- Experience building critical production systems using AWS preferred or Azure GCP
- Ability to lead the engineering team, shape engineering culture, and provide technical guidance
- Experience developing infrastructure to ensure reliability of cloud services under high loads
- Experience developing tooling for product teams to self-service and own operation of their services and storage in responsive and cost-effective ways
- Experience creating abstractions for developers to understand their services' health and adopt best practices to deliver high-quality customer experience
- Experience actively contributing to building the roadmap for infrastructure
- Experience hiring, developing, and leading an inclusive, engaged, and high-performing team
- Proficiency in building and managing automation and AI-native development tooling
- Ability to champion, role model, and embed cultural principles such as Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team
- Ability to work with backend technologies written in Golang, deployed on AWS using Terraform (preferred but not required)
- Legal ability to work at Samsara and in the specified work location (if applicable)
Benefits & Perks
Above-market total compensation through base salary, performance-based bonus, and equity
Flexible, employee-led remote work model with in-office options
Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
Professional development stipend
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