Senior Manager, Quality Engineering
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Senior Manager leading test infrastructure and quality engineering for Samsara’s Connected Operations Cloud. Scaling automation, quality platforms, and release confidence for IoT customers.
Responsibilities:
- 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
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