About the role:
Samsara is looking for an experienced engineering director to lead our Platform team in Poland. Our Platform org is responsible for the core enterprise capabilities that powers Samsara’s Connected Operations platform as well as providing shared capabilities that accelerate our internal product engineering teams. This includes areas such as Reporting, Alerting, Org/User management, Release management, Monetization, Mobile, Web capabilities to support our rapidly growing footprint of customers. This organization is building the foundation to stay ahead of the needs of our expanding customer base and platform.
You should apply if:
- You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
- You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work, this role won’t be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development, countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
- You’re energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative, ambitious ideas for our customers.
- You want to be with the best: At Samsara, we win together, celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a high-caliber team that will encourage you to do your best.
Click here to learn about what we value at Samsara.
In this role, you will:
- Drive the vision, roadmap and priorities for Samsara’s Platform teams.
- Ensure high technical standards through both processes and the culture you instill.
- Mentor and grow engineering managers and staff/senior engineers.
- 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:
- 10+ years of industry experience in software engineering/development
- 7+ years of engineering management experience
- A track record of building high performing software teams
- Willingness to dive-deep and solve challenging technical problems
An ideal candidate also has:
- Experience managing managers and teams of 40+ engineers
- A customer-focused mindset and good product sense
- 5+ years of experience in SaaS software development roles
- BS in Computer Science or Engineering
- Experience with best practices around testing, monitoring, and SLAs to ensure high product quality in large-scale distributed web services
