Manager II, Software Engineering, Infrastructure

About the Role

Samsara is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Core Infrastructure team. This team builds and operates the foundational compute, networking, storage, and cloud systems behind Samsara’s products. Core Infrastructure is central to the availability, scalability, security, and efficiency of our platform.

This role combines technical and people leadership to evolve Samsara’s infrastructure at scale, supporting a platform that processes more than 25 trillion data points annually. You will guide infrastructure strategy and modernization, improve reliability and operational health, and enable product teams to move faster through automation and self-service capabilities.

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 as we scale globally and across new offices.
• Hire, develop, and lead an inclusive, engaged, and high-performing team.

Qualifications

Minimum 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.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading infrastructure for a large-scale cloud or distributed platform.
• Experience with multi-region public cloud, container orchestration, and declarative infrastructure.
• Experience leading major modernization, reliability, disaster-recovery, or cloud-efficiency initiatives.
• Experience leading globally distributed teams.
• Practical experience using AI-enabled tools to improve engineering effectiveness.