[Hiring] IT Engineering Manager II @Samsara

Role Description

Samsara's Core IT team builds the systems, processes, and experiences that let every team at Samsara do its best work. As Manager II, IT Engineering and DevOps, you'll lead the engineering team behind our internal integrations, automation, and AI-native workflows powering Core IT. You'll serve and support the other functions inside the organization, including the service organization, identity, and others, building the automation that eliminates manual toil, improves productivity, and delivers seamless experiences for Samsara employees. You'll set the technical roadmap for the team, ensuring velocity and throughput are high, leveraging resources across time zones.

This role will be eligible for remote work. Relocation assistance will not be provided for this role. The team spans US and India time zones, so meaningful daily overlap with India working hours is part of the job.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world.
• You want to lead engineers, not just review their pull requests.
• You're energized by our opportunity to digitize large sectors of the global economy.
• You want to unify a team around a compelling strategy.
• You want colleagues who make you better.

In this role, you will:

• Own integrations, automation, and AI-native workflows across Core IT.
• Build and maintain the automation that serves the other functions inside the organization.
• Evaluate and adopt new automation and AI tooling as it matures.
• Manage a team of engineers in the US and India.
• Set technical direction and a shared roadmap for a team.
• Build the working rhythm a globally distributed engineering team needs to operate as one team.
• Partner with ServiceOps and Business Operations leadership on automation.
• Serve as the liaison between business stakeholders and the automation team.
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara's cultural principles.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or automation engineering, including 3+ years directly managing engineers.
• Experience managing a globally distributed engineering team across multiple time zones, including India.
• Hands-on experience with workflow automation and orchestration tooling (Selenium, Workato, or similar).
• A track record of setting technical direction and a shared roadmap for a team.
• Proficient in Python/JavaScript, with the ability to read and review pull requests.

Requirements

• Experience evaluating or deploying AI-driven or agentic automation tools in a production environment.
• Experience building integrations and automation that serve other teams' platforms and workflows.
• Experience with ITSM and ticketing platforms (Zendesk, Jira).
• Experience building automations, integrations, and proactive monitoring & alerting on core SaaS and identity tooling.
• Experience with corporate security and compliance programs relevant to automation and integration work.

Benefits

• Above-market total compensation through a combination of base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity.
• Flexible, employee-led remote model.
• Professional development stipend.
• Comprehensive health and parental leave plans.