Senior Manager, Software Engineering - AI Developer Productivity (Dev Agents and SRE AI)
San Francisco - SF9full time
Remote
senior
$155k–$213k
H1B: yes
Samsara Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Samsara leads AI initiatives across the software development lifecycle. The role includes managing teams building AI agents for developer productivity and site reliability engineering.
Responsibilities
AI is changing how our R&D organization builds and runs software. This is a new role: one leader for Samsara's AI bets across the software development lifecycle. You'll own two efforts that started and whatever comes next.
Dev Agents builds in-house and integrates vendors such as Claude and Codex. That includes an Agent Gateway that serves internal MCPs, managed access to skills, and cloud runners that fan work out to cloud agents.
SRE AI is an agent that does the first-line work of an on-call engineer. It already runs on real incidents in production: it writes a root cause analysis, escalates severity when it has proof, and can roll back the deployment it identified as the cause.
This is a new role. You'll lead a team of five to 10 senior engineers, from Senior to Staff. You'll work directly with every R&D leader and with the developers who use what you build.
This is a remote position open to candidates based in North America.
What makes this unique
One leader across the lifecycle. You own AI for the whole software development lifecycle, for our R&D organization.
Room to try things. Try, fail, learn. One bet in five landing is a good outcome.
Already in production. SRE AI runs on live incidents today, and two teams use it as first responder.
A senior team. Principal, senior staff, staff and senior engineers who work without a roadmap.
Build, don't hand off. This is hands-on leadership. You'll work from the details, not from a PRD.
