Manager, Software Engineering - Mobile Platform

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About the role:

At Samsara, the Mobile Platform team is at the forefront of our mobile innovation, championing developer velocity and consistency. We craft, maintain, and evolve the core frameworks and tooling that empower every engineering team to build exceptional mobile applications for our customers. Your contributions will be pivotal in shaping mobile-first experiences across the organization as we continue to expand our product offerings and innovate in service of our customers.

Our responsibilities span a wide array of critical infrastructure, from reusable UX components and design systems to seamless continuous integration pipelines, insightful monitoring tools, and resilient networking and persistence layers. These foundational systems are widely adopted across diverse applications and business units, driving significant impact throughout the entire company.

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US or Canada.

• 8+ years of software development experience, with a strong focus on mobile technologies.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining mobile platform components, frameworks, and infrastructure in production environments.
• 3+ years of experience managing and leading software engineering teams, with a proven track record of growing and mentoring individual contributors.
• Demonstrated experience in leading technical projects focused on mobile platform improvements, from conception to delivery, with multiple engineering contributors.
• Deep knowledge of React Native internals, its architecture, and best practices for building scalable and performant mobile platforms.
• Proficiency in using Graph
  
  QL and Redux for efficient data fetching and state management.
• Strong understanding of mobile architecture, performance optimization techniques, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling.
• Solid testing and debugging skills in a mobile context, including experience with unit and integration tests for platform components.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with various engineering teams to deliver impactful platform improvements.

An Ideal Candidate Also Has:

• Proven experience with native mobile development (Swift/Objective-C and Kotlin/Java) and deep expertise in bridging React Native with native code.
• Strong track record of profiling and optimizing performance in large-scale mobile applications, including identifying and resolving complex performance bottlenecks at the platform level.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing advanced mobile CI/CD infrastructure.
• Familiarity with cross-platform development paradigms beyond React Native (e.g., Flutter, Kotlin Multiplatform).
• Experience working with microservices and distributed systems.
• Experience on a platform team specifically serving internal engineering customers and understanding their pain points.
• Ability to align engineering with product and operations teams, translating their needs into robust platform solutions.
• Experience shipping and maintaining complex core platform features over several years.
• Domain experience in logistics, fleet management, or industrial IoT.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world:
  The software, firmware, and hardware you build will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You want to build for scale:
  With over 2.3 million IoT devices deployed to our global customers, you will work on a range of new and mature technologies driving scalable innovation for customers across industries driving the world's physical operations.
• You are a life-long learner:
  We have ambitious goals. Every Samsarian has a growth mindset as we work with a wide range of technologies, challenges, and customers that push us…