Engineering Manager, Core Infrastructure — Remote Canada

Samsara; Canada; Remote; CAD 143,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Flexible working

Job summary

Samsara, a pioneer in Connected Operations, is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Core Infrastructure team for our platform that handles massive data workloads. You will guide architecture, reliability, and automation, enabling product teams to move faster while maintaining high availability.

The role is fully remote for candidates in Canada, requiring strong leadership and a deep background in production infrastructure and cloud systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of 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.

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.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

Strategic planning

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Job description

Samsara, a pioneer in Connected Operations, is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Core Infrastructure team for our platform that handles massive data workloads. You will guide architecture, reliability, and automation, enabling product teams to move faster while maintaining high availability.

The role is fully remote for candidates in Canada, requiring strong leadership and a deep background in production infrastructure and cloud systems.