Samsara · 1 day ago
Director of Engineering and Routing
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$110K/yr - $310K/yr
10+ years expSamsara is a pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, helping organizations harness IoT data to improve their operations. The Director of Engineering will define and drive the next generation of Routing products, overseeing the entire lifecycle from Route Planning to Execution, while leading a world-class engineering organization.
Business IntelligenceCloud Data ServicesInternet of ThingsSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Define the Technical and Product Vision: Set the long-term architecture and technical direction for the Routing & Navigation portfolio. Balance innovation with operational excellence, ensuring scalability, reliability, and exceptional user experience
Drive Product-Focused Engineering Execution: Partner closely with Product and Design leaders to translate customer needs and product strategy into an actionable roadmap. Ensure your teams ship with speed, quality, and measurable customer impact
Scale and Inspire a High-Performing Organization: Lead and grow a multi-team, multi-level engineering organization (including managers and ICs). Foster a culture of technical ownership, autonomy, and product intuition, empowering teams to make bold, data-driven decisions
Accelerate Innovation in New Bets: Identify and incubate new product opportunities in the routing and logistics space, exploring emerging areas such as predictive routing, real-time re-optimization, and connected navigation experiences
Champion Operational Excellence: Build for scale and reliability—owning performance, monitoring, and on-call health across critical routing services that support thousands of fleets in motion
Qualification
Required
Experience architecting and scaling distributed systems in domains such as routing engines, mapping services, telematics, logistics optimization, or other real-time systems
10+ years of engineering experience with at least 5 years leading multi-team organizations managing managers
Proven record of building strong engineering cultures and mentoring technical leaders
Ability to deeply understand customer workflows and partner with Product to make tradeoffs between speed, impact, and quality
Track record of driving availability, performance, and security for mission-critical SaaS systems in high-growth environments
Exceptional ability to connect technical architecture to long-term business and product strategy
Skilled at scaling systems and organizations simultaneously
Preferred
BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field
Experience scaling products and revenue through a high growth phase
Background in B2B SaaS, telematics, or mobility platforms
Experience with mapping data (e.g., OSM, HERE, Google Maps APIs) or logistics optimization a bonus
Benefits
Competitive total compensation package
Employee-led remote and flexible working
Health benefits
Company
Samsara
Samsara is digitizing the world of physical operations.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$930MKey Investors
General CatalystAndreessen Horowitz
2021-12-15IPO
2020-09-24Secondary Market
2020-05-20Series F· $700M
Leadership Team
Sanjit Biswas
CEO
Ben Calderon
CTO - Hardware & Operations
Recent News
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