IT Engineering Manager II
Job description
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:
Samsara's Core IT team builds the systems, processes, and experiences that let every team at Samsara do its best work. As Manager II, IT Engineering and DevOps, you'll lead the engineering team behind our internal integrations, automation, and AI-native workflows powering Core IT. You'll serve and support the other functions inside the organization, including the service organization, identity, and others, building the automation that eliminates manual toil, improves productivity, and delivers seamless experiences for Samsara employees. You'll set the technical roadmap for the team, ensuring velocity and throughput are high, leveraging resources across time zones.
This role will be eligible for remote work. Relocation assistance will not be provided for this role. The team spans US and India time zones, so meaningful daily overlap with India working hours is part of the job.
You should apply if:
- You want to impact the industries that run our world. Your work will have real-world impact: helping keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and keep workers safe on the job.
- You want to lead engineers, not just review their pull requests. You'll set direction for the team building integrations, automation, and AI-native workflows, and be accountable for what they ship.
- 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 unify a team around a compelling strategy. The opportunities are clear, and you will help your team get organized, develop agile practices, and deliver outcomes swiftly.
- You want colleagues who make you better. You'll work alongside people who support each other's work, push each other to think more rigorously, and share the credit when something goes well.
Click here to learn about what we value at Samsara.
In this role, you will:
- Own integrations, automation, and AI-native workflows across Core IT: the orchestration tooling, agentic workflows, and connections between systems that remove manual work company-wide.
- Build and maintain the automation that serves the other functions inside the organization, including the service organization, identity, and others, unlocking capacity for our technical teams.
- Evaluate and adopt new automation and AI tooling as it matures, with a point of view on where it belongs in the organization's systems and where it doesn't yet.
- Manage a team of engineers in the US and India, and grow the team's capabilities and skills as its mandate expands.
- Set technical direction and a shared roadmap for a team whose work has been split across more than one reporting line, and unify it under a single engineering strategy, with clearly defined metrics such as engineering capacity, throughput and velocity.
- Build the working rhythm a globally distributed engineering team needs to operate as one team rather than two: overlap hours, handoffs, and shared delivery across US and India time zones.
- Partner with ServiceOps and Business Operations leadership on where automation and self-service can retire manual work across the organization.
- Serve as the liaison between business stakeholders and the automation team, surfacing use cases, translating operational needs into technical requirements, and prioritizing what gets automated next.
- 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:
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or automation engineering, including 3+ years directly managing engineers.
- Experience managing a globally distributed engineering team across multiple time zones, including India.
- Hands-on experience with workflow automation and orchestration tooling (Selenium, Workato, or similar) and with building integrations across enterprise systems.
- A track record of setting technical direction and a shared roadmap for a team, not only running one that already has both in place.
- Proficient in Python/JavaScript, at a minimum, with the ability to read and review pull requests, evaluate architecture decisions firsthand, and guide developers at all stages of their career on CI/CD, TDD and GitHub best practices.
An ideal candidate has:
- Experience evaluating or deploying AI-driven or agentic automation tools in a production environment.
- Experience building integrations and automation that serve other teams' platforms and workflows, rather than owning a single platform end to end.
- Experience with ITSM and ticketing platforms (Zendesk, Jira) and the automation that reduces manual ticket handling.
- Experience building automations, integrations, and proactive monitoring & alerting on top of core SaaS and identity tooling such as Okta, Google Workspace, Atlassian (Jira/Confluence), and Slack.
- Experience with corporate security and compliance programs relevant to automation and integration work, including SOX, FedRAMP, GDPR, CCPA, or similar.
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. Learn more about our total rewards and benefits below.
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 [email protected] or click here if you require any reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process.
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