Manager II, Data Platform

Samsara

1d•$154,700 - $234,000•Remote

About The Position

The Samsara Data Platform team owns and develops the analytic platform across Samsara. As a Manager II of Data Platform, you will build and lead teams that maintain our data lake and surrounding infrastructure. You will also be responsible for meeting new business needs, including expanding the platform as the company grows (both in size and geographic coverage), privacy and security needs, and customer-facing feature developments. This role is open to candidates residing in the US except the San Francisco Bay Metro Area, NYC Metro Area, and Washington, D.C. Metro Area.

Requirements

BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or other related technical degree.
2+ years of technical people management experience.
5+ years of relevant technical experience with data infrastructure.
Experience building and deploying large-scale data platform systems with feedback loops for continuous improvement.
Comfortable leading infrastructure development in collaboration with cross functional teams, scientists, and researchers.
A solid understanding of agentic development practices.

Nice To Haves

MS or PhD in Computer Science or other technical degree.
Experience with state-of-art data platform technologies such as: AWS (S3 and RDS, SQS, DMS, Dynamo, etc.).
Spark a must, Flink, Trino/Presto a plus.
Data lake file formats such as Delta, Hudi, or Iceberg.
Python/Scala.
Container based orchestration services such as Kubernetes, ECS, Fargate, etc.
Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform).
Go is a plus.
Data orchestration system experience is a plus (e.g., Airflow, Dagster).
Proven track record for innovation and delivering value to customers (both internal and external).
Demonstrated ability to build cross-functional consensus and drive cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of data-focused engineers to build and maintain a stable, scalable, and modern data platform capable of handling petabytes of data.
Help drive long-term planning and establish scalable processes for execution.
Actively contribute to building the data roadmap for Samsara, including being a thought leader in our AI transformation.
Stay connected to novel technological developments that suit Samsara’s needs.
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 international team.