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, Javascript, 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. Take a look at our Benefits site to learn more.

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