Director of Engineering and Routing
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
3 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About the role:
Samsara is seeking a Director of Engineering to define and drive the next generation of our Routing productsa critical high-visibility domain powering how our customers move people vehicles and goods efficiently and safely.
This leader will oversee the entire lifecycle of routing from Route Planning through Route Execution shaping these into cohesive scalable platforms and incubating new product bets in the routing ecosystem. You will combine strategic product thinking with deep engineering rigor to build systems that directly influence the efficiency of the worlds physical operations.
Youll lead a world-class engineering organization responsible for building the foundation of Samsaras intelligent routing stackfrom real-time route optimization exception handling to next-gen driver experiences powered by data and AI.
This is a remote position open to candidates in the U.S. Relocation assistance will not be provided for this role.
What Youll Do
- 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 reliabilityowning performance monitoring and on-call health across critical routing services that support thousands of fleets in motion.
About You
- Proven Technical Depth:
Experience architecting and scaling distributed systems in domains such as routing engines mapping services telematics logistics optimization or other real-time systems. - Engineering Leadership:
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. - Product-Driven Mindset:
Ability to deeply understand customer workflows and partner with Product to make tradeoffs between speed impact and quality. - Operational Excellence:
Track record of driving availability performance and security for mission-critical SaaS systems in high-growth environments. - Strategic Leadership:
Exceptional ability to connect technical architecture to long-term business and product strategy. Skilled at scaling systems and organizations simultaneously.
Preferred Qualifications
- 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.
Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Go
- Lean
- Management Experience
- React
- Node.js
- Operations Management
- Project Management
- Research & Development
- Software Development
- Team Management
- GraphQL
- Leadership Experience
About Company
Publicly traded company [NYSE: IOT] offering a single platform for fleet operations at scale. Products include real-time GPS, ELD, AI-powered dash cams, telematics, maintenance, routing, & driver app. Recognized by the Forbes Cloud 100.
