Manager II, Software Engineering, Infrastructure

Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, helping organizations that depend on physical operations use IoT data to improve safety, efficiency, and sustainability. The Manager II, Software Engineering, Infrastructure will lead the Core Infrastructure team, setting technical strategy, improving reliability and operational health, and enabling engineering teams through automation and self-service infrastructure. The role combines technical and people leadership for globally distributed infrastructure engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach, and develop a globally distributed Core Infrastructure team, raising performance, establishing clear ownership, and creating leverage through senior ICs and technical leads
• Own technical strategy and translate it into an integrated roadmap across compute, networking, storage, infrastructure control planes, reliability, and cloud efficiency
• Improve operational health by strengthening capacity management, failure isolation, observability, safe rollouts, incident learning, and sustainable on-call practices
• Build paved paths, automation, and self-service infrastructure that help engineering teams move faster, safely, and reliably
• Apply AI-enabled tools and workflows thoughtfully to improve engineering execution, operational analysis, and toil reduction
• 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
• Hire, develop and lead an inclusive, engaged, and high performing team

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience, including 2+ years directly managing software or infrastructure engineers
• Experience leading, developing, and raising the performance of an established engineering team
• A strong technical background in production infrastructure, cloud platforms, or distributed systems at scale
• A track record of leading complex technical initiatives and translating strategy into measurable results
• Strong communication, technical judgment, and the ability to create alignment across teams
• This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US
• Experience leading infrastructure for a large-scale cloud or distributed platform
• Experience with multi-region public cloud, container orchestration, and declarative infrastructure
• Led major modernization, reliability, disaster-recovery, or cloud-efficiency initiatives
• Experience leading globally distributed teams
• Practical experience using AI-enabled tools to improve engineering effectiveness