Manager II, Software Engineering

Recovering entrepreneur? Frustrated with bureaucracy? Want to build the team and write the roadmap, not inherit one?

We’re hiring Engineering Managers across multiple verticals. The nice thing about growing 30%+ at ~$2.1B ARR is that we need great engineering leaders everywhere, and we have the room to shape the team around the right person. You lead like a founder. We give you the platform to do it at scale.

About the role:

Samsara (NYSE: IOT) sits at the center of hardware, software, AI, and the physical world. The platform processes 25+ trillion data points annually from IoT sensors, cameras, and connected devices across thousands of organizations, and that dataset is compounding: it grew from 4 trillion to 25+ trillion in four years. We’re still early in turning that data into the products that will define how physical operations run, and we’re hiring the leaders who will build the teams that build what comes next.

We’re at ~$2.1B ARR growing 30%+ year over year, with 96% of our largest customers on two or more products. The fastest-growing divisions at Samsara are tackling the hardest, most ambiguous problems at the company: building new products from scratch, applying AI and ML to massive real-world datasets, and shipping capabilities that change how organizations maintain equipment, manage fleets, and run day-to-day operations. Most of this work is zero-to-one, at billion-dollar scale.

We’re looking for Engineering Managers who want to define what ships next by building and leading great teams. You’ll manage engineers across platform and product, and we’re open to shaping team scope around the right person’s strengths and interests. That window won’t stay open long.

This role is remote and open to candidates residing in the US or Canada. Relocation assistance will not be provided for this role.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world. The software your team builds will have real-world stakes: helping keep the lights on, getting food into grocery stores, keeping workers safe. What ships here isn’t metrics on a dashboard. It shows up on the loading dock, the job site, and the dispatch floor.
• You want to build, not maintain. Samsara is in full growth mode. Your team will build new systems from scratch, not babysit old ones. You’d own entire problem spaces end to end, with the autonomy to set direction from day one.
• You want to work where AI meets the physical world. Samsara has spent a decade building the largest proprietary dataset for physical operations. More connected assets generate more data, more data trains better models, better models drive more value, and more value wins more assets. The market and the opportunity here are what set us apart, not just the models.
• You believe customers are more than a number. Samsara engineers have a rare closeness to end users. You and your team will participate in customer interviews, collaborate with product managers and customer success, and use that context to build products that solve real problems operators face every day.
• You believe great teams are the real product. You get energy from hiring exceptional people, growing them, and creating the conditions for them to do the best work of their careers. The rate-limiting step on our teams isn’t tooling or process. It’s ambition, and your job is to unlock it.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and grow a team of engineers: hire top talent, coach and develop individuals, manage performance, and build a culture of ownership, quality, and velocity.
• Take ownership of technically complex, mission-critical areas and run with them. We want to point you in a direction and show up to the demo meeting impressed, not spend our weeks managing the details.
• Define and drive technical strategy and roadmap for new products and platform capabilities, from backend services and APIs to the customer-facing UI.
• Guide your team to design and ship full-stack features end to end, delivering AI-powered products that solve real operational problems across backend, frontend, and potentially mobile.
• Partner with product, design, and customer-facing teams to translate ambiguous, real-world problems into clear technical plans, staffing, and measurable outcomes.
• Oversee the systems behind AI-driven products, including data ingestion, APIs, and the workflows that put intelligence into the hands of operators, and stay close enough to the technical work to guide architecture and make sound tradeoffs.
• Raise the bar across engineering through design reviews, hiring standards, mentorship of senior engineers and future leaders, and by setting the standard for quality, velocity, and craft.
• 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:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in software design and development, including building and operating production systems at scale.
• 3+ years of experience directly managing software engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
• Strong technical fundamentals across backend services, APIs, and frontend (web or mobile), enough to guide architecture, review designs, and earn your team’s respect.
• Familiarity with modern languages and frameworks (Go, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, or similar).
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-team or cross-org projects from inception through rollout, including managing ambiguity, driving alignment, and delivering measurable impact.
• Experience building or leading teams that build AI-powered or data-driven products. You don’t need to train models, but you know how to take AI capabilities and turn them into products customers love.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executives.
• A track record of building: zero-to-one products, teams and systems you left in a meaningfully better place, or hard problems you refused to let stay unsolved.

An ideal candidate also has:

• Experience shipping AI-powered features in production, whether that’s LLM-based products, agentic workflows, recommendation systems, or other customer-facing AI.
• Experience leading teams through AI-augmented development workflows (Cursor, LLMs, etc.) to multiply output and accelerate delivery.
• Background working with real-world operational data (telematics, sensor data, work orders, inspections) or a strong interest in learning the domain.
• A proven track record of managing and developing senior engineers, building managers-of-managers, and influencing engineering culture, standards, and best practices beyond a single team.
• Experience scaling teams through fast growth, including building hiring pipelines and onboarding.