Manager, Software Engineering

Description

• Samsara is looking for an experienced and visionary Engineering Manager II to lead our Full-Stack Platform Team.

• This person will be responsible for driving innovation and overseeing the development of both customer-facing experiences and Samsara’s platform services, APIs, and frameworks.

• The platform components your team builds will empower product teams to build high-quality customer experiences efficiently.

• As an EM, you will partner with cross-functional teams, including Product, Design, AI, and Infrastructure, to shape the technical vision and strategy for our platform.

• You will also ensure that our backend and frontend ecosystems are scalable, reliable, and developer-friendly.

• This is an opportunity to lead a high-impact team in a fast-paced, high-scale environment while working on cutting-edge technologies.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years leading full-stack or platform teams in a fast-paced environment.

• Full-Stack Expertise: Proficiency in both frontend (React, TypeScript, CSS) and backend (Node.js, Python, or Go) technologies, with experience designing scalable and maintainable systems.

• Platform Engineering & API Design: Strong background in building reusable services, SDKs, and APIs that serve multiple product teams, with a deep understanding of RESTful and GraphQL architectures.

• Cloud & DevOps: Experience with cloud-native architectures, containerization, and CI/CD automation to enable rapid iteration and deployment.

• Software Architecture: Expertise in distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architectures, and database technologies (SQL & NoSQL).

• GraphQL: Proficient in using GraphQL for efficient data fetching and API design, with a working knowledge of integrating GraphQL in mobile and web environments.

• Performance & Security: Deep understanding of web performance optimizations, caching strategies, observability, and security best practices.

Benefits

• Full time employees receive a competitive total compensation package along with employee-led remote and flexible working

• health benefits

• Samsara for Good charity fund

• and much, much more.

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