Senior Manager, Quality Engineering

🕒 September 8

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $162.4k - $290k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔧 QA Engineer (Quality Assurance)

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Samsara

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2015

📦 Logistics

🏗️ Construction

🏥 Healthcare

💰 Seed Round on 2014-08

Logistics • Construction • Healthcare

Samsara is a technology company that provides a comprehensive operations platform aimed at improving the efficiency, safety, and sustainability of organizations. Their solutions include video-based safety, vehicle telematics, equipment monitoring, workforce applications, and site visibility. Samsara serves a wide range of industries, including transportation, logistics, construction, and government. The platform connects people, systems, and data, enabling organizations to make faster, data-informed decisions. Samsara's Connected Operations technology helps complex organizations operate more effectively by offering real-time GPS, proactive alerts, compliance training, and asset tracking.

📋 Description

• Lead and develop an organization of engineering managers, software engineers, and quality engineers • Define the vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for quality engineering and shared testing platforms • Build scalable, self-service test infrastructure, including frameworks, environments, test data, simulators, and CI/CD integrations • Establish measurable quality outcomes such as escaped-regression rates, automated coverage, test reliability, time to signal, defect-detection effectiveness, and release confidence • Drive a shift-left quality strategy across architecture, development, code review, and continuous delivery • Partner with product engineering teams to identify high-risk customer journeys and close coverage gaps • Reduce flaky tests, shorten feedback loops, and improve failure diagnosis • Enable Quality Engineering ICs with tooling for exploratory testing, end-to-end validation, release qualification, and regression analysis • Introduce AI-assisted capabilities for test generation, failure classification, root-cause analysis, coverage identification, and quality insights • Hire, coach, and develop inclusive, 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 • Experience managing other managers and leading organizations containing 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 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 reduce escaped regressions and improve release confidence • Strong technical depth, including architecture guidance, technical design review, implementation-quality evaluation, and build-versus-buy decisions • Experience creating CI/CD quality gates • Understanding of exploratory and manual testing • Experience driving adoption of horizontal platforms through APIs, documentation, enablement, and stakeholder partnership • Ability to influence engineering and product leaders and lead complex cross-organizational initiatives • Experience operating quality systems for large-scale cloud, mobile, IoT, hardware-integrated, or distributed products • Excellent communication, organizational leadership, and talent-development skills • Direct experience with Golang, AWS, and Terraform is not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff • Ongoing equity refresh opportunities tied to performance • Performance-based bonus/variable pay • Equity for eligible roles • Flexible, employee-led remote model • Professional development stipend • Comprehensive health plans • Parental leave plans • Above-market total compensation opportunities