Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, helping organizations that depend on physical operations use IoT data to improve safety, efficiency, and sustainability. The Senior Manager, Quality Engineering will lead the Test Infrastructure and Quality Engineering organization, establish quality strategy and standards, and build scalable testing platforms, automation, and workflows. The role also partners across engineering and product teams to improve release confidence, reduce regressions, and develop high-performing teams.
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—including frameworks, environments, test data, device and service simulators, and CI/CD integrations—that can be adopted by engineering teams across the company
- 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 an integral 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 and act upon
- Ensure Quality Engineering ICs have effective tooling and operating mechanisms for exploratory testing, complex end-to-end validation, release qualification, and regression analysis
- Introduce intelligent and 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, highly engaged, and high-performing teams
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles as the organization scales globally
Skills
- 10+ years of relevant software engineering, developer infrastructure, test engineering, or quality engineering experience
- 5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including experience managing other managers and leading organizations containing both managers and senior ICs
- A 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 and the ability to guide architecture, review technical designs, evaluate implementation quality, and make pragmatic build-versus-buy decisions
- Experience creating high-signal CI/CD quality gates while balancing test coverage, execution speed, reliability, and developer productivity
- A strong understanding of exploratory and manual testing and where human judgment provides value beyond automation
- Experience driving adoption of horizontal platforms through intuitive APIs, documentation, enablement, stakeholder partnership, and a strong internal customer orientation
- The 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
Benefits
- An initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff
- Ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance, subject to plan terms and conditions
- Performance-based bonus/variable pay
- Equity for eligible roles
- A flexible, employee-led remote model
- A professional development stipend
- Comprehensive health plans
- Comprehensive parental leave plans
- Remote work where it aligns with operational requirements
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