IT Engineering Manager II

About the role:

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.

In this role, you will:

• Own integrations, automation, and AI-native workflows across Core IT: the orchestration tooling, agentic workflows, and connections between systems that remove manual work company-wide.
• Build and maintain the automation that serves the other functions inside the organization, including the service organization, identity, and others, unlocking capacity for our technical teams.
• Evaluate and adopt new automation and AI tooling as it matures, with a point of view on where it belongs in the organization's systems and where it doesn't yet.
• Manage a team of engineers in the US and India, and grow the team's capabilities and skills as its mandate expands.
• Set technical direction and a shared roadmap for a team whose work has been split across more than one reporting line, and unify it under a single engineering strategy, with clearly defined metrics such as engineering capacity, throughput and velocity.
• Build the working rhythm a globally distributed engineering team needs to operate as one team rather than two: overlap hours, handoffs, and shared delivery across US and India time zones.
• Partner with ServiceOps and Business Operations leadership on where automation and self-service can retire manual work across the organization.
• Serve as the liaison between business stakeholders and the automation team, surfacing use cases, translating operational needs into technical requirements, and prioritizing what gets automated next.
• 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.

Minimum requirements for the role:

• 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) and with building integrations across enterprise systems.
• A track record of setting technical direction and a shared roadmap for a team, not only running one that already has both in place.
• Proficient in Python/JavaScript, at a minimum, with the ability to read and review pull requests, evaluate architecture decisions firsthand, and guide developers at all stages of their career on CI/CD, TDD and GitHub best practices.