Manager II, Software Engineering

Overview

Lead and grow a team of software engineers building AI-powered products for physical operations on Samsara's Connected Operations Cloud.

What you'll do

• 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.
• 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.

What you'll need

• 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.
• 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.

Nice to have

• 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.

Details

• Remote, open to candidates residing in the US or Canada.
• Relocation assistance will not be provided.
• Annual base salary range of $142,800 to $184,800 CAD, varying by city of residence, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
• Eligible for an initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff and ongoing refresh opportunities.