Manager, Growth Engineering - job 1 of 2

About the role:

Are you passionate about leveraging technology to drive business growth? At Samsara, we're looking for a dynamic individual to lead our Growth Engineering team and help scale our self-serve motion. You’ll use data to uncover new opportunities, drive customer acquisition, and build seamless online experiences that empower customers to discover, try, and buy our products on their own. With expertise in modern web technologies, Python, and JavaScript, you’ll lead experiments, MVPs, and product launches that accelerate our self-serve growth engine. We value collaboration, innovation, and measurable impact—if that sounds like you, we’d love to meet you. Join us in a role where your contributions are crucial to not just our success but also in shaping the future of how we navigate our industry.

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US.

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 lifelong 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 unsupervised effort and collaboration. Motivated by our mission, we’re all racing toward our connected operations vision, and we intend to win together.

In this role, you will: 

• Manage a team of full-stack engineers to deliver customer-driven solutions in a fast-paced environment. The technology stack includes JavaScript, Vue, Python, GraphQL, and various AWS services. 
• Support the growth of individual engineers on your team through mentoring/coaching and career-pathing.
• Collaborate with senior engineers to drive technical strategy.
• Set quarterly goals and balance product/engineering priorities for maximum impact
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Designers to develop new products and enhance existing ones.
• Drive roadmapping discussions and collaborate with our partners across the organization to influence the direction of our initiatives in a manner that best serves our customers
• Perform code reviews and ensure proper design and delivery of major features
• ​​Be hands-on and contribute to feature development
• 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:

• 8+ years of full-stack engineering experience, including 1+ years of direct people management experience leading a full-stack product development team. 
• Understands the value of team culture, communication, and collaboration
• Experience developing individual contributors based on their needs and interests, as well as the needs of the company
• Is a technology business partner - recognizes the value in relationships with team members in and out of Engineering

An ideal candidate also has:

• Has experience building, delivering, and managing large-scale customer-facing products.
• Has an interest in understanding our users and what would make their day-to-day processes easier to manage.
• Demonstrated expertise in at least one layer of our technical stack (JavaScript, Python).
• AWS knowledge and expertise.
• Experience working on Growth Engineering teams and/or solving business growth problems.