Manager II, Software Engineering, Infrastructure

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and cultivate a globally distributed Core Infrastructure team.

• Enhance team performance and establish definitive ownership across essential infrastructure domains.

• Take charge of the technical strategy and convert it into a cohesive roadmap encompassing compute, networking, storage, infrastructure control planes, reliability, and cloud efficiency.

• Optimize capacity management, failure isolation, observability, safe rollouts, incident learning, and sustainable on-call practices.

• Develop paved paths, automation, and self-service infrastructure for engineering teams.

• Utilize AI-enabled tools and workflows to enhance engineering execution, operational analysis, and minimize toil.

• Advocate for and instill Samsara’s cultural principles as the company expands globally.

• Recruit, cultivate, and lead an inclusive, engaged, and high-performing team.

• Collaborate with engineering and security leaders throughout Samsara.

• Support the infrastructure behind a platform that processes over 25 trillion data points each year.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

• Over 8 years of pertinent software engineering experience.

• More than 2 years of direct management experience with software or infrastructure engineers.

• Proven experience in leading, developing, and enhancing the performance of an established engineering team.

• Strong technical foundation in production infrastructure, cloud platforms, or large-scale distributed systems.

• Demonstrated history of leading complex technical initiatives and converting strategy into measurable outcomes.

• Excellent communication skills and technical judgment.

• Capability to create alignment across teams.

• Experience managing infrastructure for a large-scale cloud or distributed platform.

• Familiarity with multi-region public cloud, container orchestration, and declarative infrastructure.

• Background in leading significant modernization, reliability, disaster recovery, or cloud efficiency initiatives.

• Experience managing globally distributed teams.

• Practical knowledge of using AI-enabled tools to boost engineering effectiveness.

• Ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the company and in the designated work location.

🏝️ Benefits

• Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff.

• Ongoing equity refresh opportunities linked to performance.

• Performance-based bonus/variable pay.

• Equity for eligible positions.

• Flexible, employee-driven remote work model.

• Professional development stipend.

• Comprehensive health plans.

• Parental leave plans.