Senior Manager, Quality Engineering

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Responsibilities

• ▹Lead and develop an organization of engineering managers, software engineers and quality engineers responsible for test infrastructure, automation and product-quality validation
• ▹Define the vision, strategy and multi-year roadmap for quality engineering and shared testing platforms across Samsara
• ▹Build scalable, self-service test infrastructure (frameworks, environments, test data, device and service simulators, CI/CD integrations) adoptable by engineering teams company-wide
• ▹Establish measurable quality outcomes, including escaped-regression rates, automated coverage, test reliability, time to signal, defect-detection effectiveness and release confidence
• ▹Drive a shift-left quality strategy that improves system testability and makes quality part of architecture, development, code review and continuous delivery
• ▹Partner with product engineering teams to identify high-risk customer journeys, close critical coverage gaps and prevent recurring classes of regressions
• ▹Improve the reliability and usefulness of automated testing by reducing flaky tests, shortening feedback loops and making failures easy to diagnose
• ▹Give Quality Engineering ICs effective tooling and operating mechanisms for exploratory testing, end-to-end validation, release qualification and regression analysis
• ▹Introduce intelligent, AI-assisted capabilities for test generation, failure classification, root-cause analysis, coverage identification and quality insights
• ▹Build a strong technical and leadership bench by hiring, coaching and developing inclusive, engaged, high-performing teams
• ▹Champion and embed Samsara's cultural principles as the organization scales globally

Requirements

• ▹10+ years of relevant software engineering, developer infrastructure, test engineering or quality engineering experience
• ▹5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing other managers and leading organizations of managers and senior ICs
• ▹Track record of building and scaling shared test infrastructure, automation frameworks, developer platforms or quality systems used by multiple engineering teams
• ▹Deep knowledge of modern testing strategies across unit, integration, contract, end-to-end, performance, reliability, mobile, web, API and distributed backend systems
• ▹Demonstrated success using metrics and engineering mechanisms to materially reduce escaped regressions and improve release confidence
• ▹Strong technical depth: guiding architecture, reviewing technical designs, evaluating implementation quality and making pragmatic build-versus-buy decisions
• ▹Experience creating high-signal CI/CD quality gates while balancing coverage, execution speed, reliability and developer productivity
• ▹Strong understanding of exploratory and manual testing and where human judgment adds value beyond automation
• ▹Experience driving adoption of horizontal platforms through intuitive APIs, documentation, enablement, stakeholder partnership and strong internal customer orientation
• ▹Ability to influence engineering and product leaders, establish shared accountability for quality and lead complex initiatives across organizational boundaries
• ▹Experience operating quality systems for large-scale cloud, mobile, IoT, hardware-integrated or distributed products
• ▹Excellent communication, organizational leadership and talent-development skills

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Annual base salary of USD 162,400 - 290,000 (depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills and experience)
• ▹Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff, plus ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance
• ▹Performance-based bonus/variable pay
• ▹Flexible, employee-led remote model
• ▹Professional development stipend
• ▹Comprehensive health and parental leave plans

About the company

Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, a platform that helps organizations running physical operations turn IoT data into actionable insights. Its products include Video-Based Safety, Vehicle Telematics, Apps and Driver Workflows, and Equipment Monitoring.