Manager, Software Engineering - Identity Access Management

Samsara

full-time

Posted on: 8/15/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $150,238 - $252,500 per year

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About the role

Lead your team in driving the continual maturation of Samsara’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) functionality.
Define and shape the roadmap and long-term vision for IAM at Samsara.
Deliver scalable, secure, and reliable authentication and authorization functionality for our customer-facing products.
Solve complex security and compliance challenges with cross-functional impact.
Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Security leadership to meet key security and compliance goals.
Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing, inclusive, and globally distributed engineering team.
Represent Samsara in external security and industry forums.
Communicate progress, risks, and strategic decisions to senior leadership.
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 team.

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
8+ years of technical experience, including 3+ years managing engineers and leading high-performing teams.
Deep subject matter expertise in authentication and authorization in multi-tenant cloud platforms.
Hands-on experience with large-scale web services deployed on AWS, Azure, or similar.
Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis skills.
Proven ability to deliver on roadmap goals and coach top engineering talent.
Experience defining and maintaining SLAs for critical infrastructure services.
Solid understanding of security vulnerabilities, exploits, and mitigations.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills across diverse, cross-functional teams.