Engineering Manager, Core Infrastructure (Remote)

samsara; United States; Remote; USD 155,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsara is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Core Infrastructure team. This role directs the foundational compute, networking, storage, and cloud systems behind Samsara’s products, ensuring availability, scalability, and security at scale.

You will mentor a globally distributed team, translate strategy into an integrated roadmap, and drive reliability and efficiency through automation and self-service. Remote position open to US residents.

Qualifications

• 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.

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

Skills

People leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Strategic planning

Communication

Education

B.S. in CS/Engineering

Job description

Samsara is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Core Infrastructure team. This role directs the foundational compute, networking, storage, and cloud systems behind Samsara’s products, ensuring availability, scalability, and security at scale.

You will mentor a globally distributed team, translate strategy into an integrated roadmap, and drive reliability and efficiency through automation and self-service. Remote position open to US residents.