# Manager II, Software Engineering

**Company**: Samsara
**Location**: San Francisco, SF9
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $155,000-$260,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/samsara/jobs/8180693?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Samsara is seeking a Manager II, Software Engineering to lead and grow a team of engineers. The successful candidate will define and drive technical strategy and roadmaps for new products and platform capabilities, guide teams to design and ship full-stack features end-to-end, and partner with product, design, and customer-facing teams to translate ambiguous problems into clear technical plans.

Responsibilities:

- Lead and grow a team of engineers: hire top talent, coach and develop individuals, manage performance, and build a culture of ownership, quality, and velocity.

- Take ownership of technically complex, mission-critical areas and run with them.

- Define and drive technical strategy and roadmap for new products and platform capabilities.

- Guide teams to design and ship full-stack features end-to-end, delivering AI-powered products that solve real operational problems.

- Partner with product, design, and customer-facing teams to translate ambiguous problems into clear technical plans.

- Oversee systems behind AI-driven products, including data ingestion, APIs, and workflows.

- Raise the bar across engineering through design reviews, hiring standards, mentorship, and setting standards for quality, velocity, and craft.

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

- 8+ years of experience in software design and development, including building and operating production systems at scale.

- 3+ years of experience directly managing software engineers.

- Strong technical fundamentals across backend services, APIs, and frontend.

- Familiarity with modern languages and frameworks (Go, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, React).

- Demonstrated experience leading cross-team or cross-org projects.

- Experience building or leading teams that build AI-powered or data-driven products.

Nice to Have:

- Experience shipping AI-powered features in production.

- Experience leading teams through AI-augmented development workflows.

- Background working with real-world operational data.

- Proven track record of managing and developing senior engineers.

Compensation:

- Annual Base Salary: $155,000-$260,000 USD

- Eligible for initial RSU grant and ongoing refresh opportunities

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## Skills

### Required
- Computer Science
- Software Engineering
- Backend Services
- APIs
- Frontend
- Go
- Python
- TypeScript/JavaScript
- React
- AI
- Machine Learning

### Nice to have
- AI-powered features
- AI-augmented development workflows
- real-world operational data
- senior engineer management

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