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Salary: USD 154,700 - 260,000 / annual
Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, a platform enabling organizations in physical operations (agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, manufacturing) to harness IoT data for actionable insights and operational improvement. The company processes more than 25 trillion data points annually and is helping digitally transform industries representing over 40% of global GDP.
You will lead the Core Infrastructure team, which builds and operates the foundational compute, networking, storage, and cloud systems powering Samsara's products. This role combines technical and people leadership to evolve infrastructure at scale, ensuring availability, scalability, security, and efficiency across the platform.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead, coach, and develop a globally distributed Core Infrastructure team, establishing clear ownership and creating leverage through senior individual contributors 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 enabling engineering teams to move faster, safely, and reliably
- Apply AI-enabled tools and workflows thoughtfully to improve engineering execution, operational analysis, and toil reduction
- Champion 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 the company scales globally
- Hire, develop, and lead an inclusive, engaged, and high-performing team
You will guide infrastructure strategy and modernization, improve reliability and operational health, and enable product teams to move faster through automation and self-service capabilities. This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US.
REQUIREMENTS:
Minimum:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 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
- Track record of leading complex technical initiatives and translating strategy into measurable results
- Strong communication, technical judgment, and ability to create alignment across teams
Ideal:
- Experience leading infrastructure for a large-scale cloud or distributed platform
- Experience with multi-region public cloud, container orchestration, and declarative infrastructure
- Led major modernization, reliability, disaster-recovery, or cloud-efficiency initiatives
- Experience leading globally distributed teams
- Practical experience using AI-enabled tools to improve engineering effectiveness
