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Salary: CAD 142,800 - 184,800 / annual
Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, a platform enabling organizations to harness IoT data for actionable insights across physical operations including agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing.
You will lead Samsara's Core Infrastructure team, which builds and operates the foundational compute, networking, storage, and cloud systems behind the platform. This team is central to availability, scalability, security, and efficiency, supporting a platform that processes more than 25 trillion data points annually.
In this role, you'll combine technical and people leadership to evolve infrastructure at scale. 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. You'll lead a globally distributed team, develop senior engineers, and create clear ownership across critical infrastructure domains while working closely with engineering and security leaders.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead, coach, and develop a globally distributed Core Infrastructure team, raising performance and establishing clear ownership
- 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 to help engineering teams move faster, safely, and reliably
- Apply AI-enabled tools and workflows to improve engineering execution, operational analysis, and toil reduction
- Champion and embed Samsara's cultural principles as the company scales globally
- Hire, develop, and lead an inclusive, engaged, and high-performing team
Requirements:
- 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 candidate also has:
- 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
