About the role:

Samsara’s network of hardware devices is a scalable cloud-connected sensor platform that collects and stores observations about the world in near real time. Through our cloud dashboard and mobile app, customers gain real-time visibility and drive efficiencies into their commercial fleet and industrial centre operations.

At Samsara, we value aligning small teams with customer use cases and giving the independence needed to deliver impactful solutions quickly.

Our Telematics team takes real-time signals from our IoT devices deployed in vehicles (think: GPS, Engine RPM, Fuel Levels and hundreds more) and processes them to help our customers make their vehicle fleets safer, greener, and more efficient. As an Engineering Manager focusing on Firmware within Telematics at Samsara, you will drive teams to develop features that have a tangible impact on current and future customers. You’ll hire and develop your team, define project plans and roadmaps, ensure consistent firmware releases, and work with your engineers to define next-generation technology across our platform.

The Telematics firmware team, which you will lead, is a cross-functional product engineering team that designs, develops and maintains solutions that help our customers become more sustainable in their fleet operations. We primarily work and collaborate closely with product managers, customer support teams, other firmware teams, and full stack engineers to build out our feature sets. The technology in use includes buildkite, databricks, GraphQL, Golang, C++, Linux, CAN, Wifi, USB and LTE.

We are looking for a highly motivated, goal-oriented engineering manager who loves finding solutions through collaboration. Creating and maintaining a culture of feedback, and making things happen while keeping things fun for the whole team, will be something you will strive to achieve and uphold.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software, firmware, and hardware you build will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You want to build for scale: With over 2.3 million IoT devices deployed to our global customers, you will work on a range of new and mature technologies driving scalable innovation for customers across industries driving the world's physical operations.
• You are a life-long learner: We have ambitious goals. Every Samsarian has a growth mindset as we work with a wide range of technologies, challenges, and customers that push us to learn on the go.
• You believe customers are more than a number: Samsara engineers enjoy a rare closeness to the end user and you will have the opportunity to participate in customer interviews, collaborate with customer success and product managers, and use metrics to ensure our work is translating into better customer outcomes.
• You are a team player: Working on our Samsara Engineering teams requires a mix of independent effort and collaboration. Motivated by our mission, we’re all racing toward our connected operations vision, and we intend to win—together.

Click here to learn about what we value at Samsara.

In this role, you will:

• Participate with senior leadership and cross-functional peers to develop a long-term roadmap and strategy for Samsara’s telematics firmware feature sets
• Ensure Telematics firmware releases are high in quality, stability and velocity by driving the firmware release process
• Collaborate with senior engineers to drive technical strategy
• Set quarterly goals and balance product/engineering priorities for maximum impact
• Drive planning and execution on the roadmap, delivering features and infrastructure enhancements to delight customers
• Set a high standard for the reliability of your components
• Champion, role model, 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 we scale globally and across new offices
• Hire, develop and lead an inclusive, engaged, and high-performing team

Minimum requirements for the role:

• Experience building, operating, and maintaining, scalable, mission-critical firmware products
• Strong interpersonal communication skills (including listening, speaking, and writing) and ability to work well in a diverse, team-focused environment
• Strong track record of delivering products and features that customers love
• Proven record of attracting top talent and coaching the team
• 8+ years of relevant software engineering work experience
• 3+ years of hands-on technical management experience

An ideal candidate also has:

• Has experience building, delivering, and managing metrics and monitoring for large-scale firmware devices