Job brief: Senior Manager, Software Engineering - AI Developer Productivity (Dev Agents and SRE AI)

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• Listed on Samsara's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-15 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-15.
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What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $162,400 to $290,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Remote · Remote - US · San Francisco - SF9
• Posted: 2026-11-14

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Manager. The title says "Manager".

Must have

• Minimum requirements for the role
• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years of people management experience.

Conditions

• Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, which is a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Thi…
• At Samsara, we are helping improve the safety, efficiency and sustainability of the physical operations that power our global economy.
• Working at Samsara means you’ll help define the future of physical operations and be on a team that’s shaping an exciting array of product solutions, including Video-Based Safety,…
• SRE AI is an agent that does the first-line work of an on-call engineer.

Main duties

• Lead Dev Agents and SRE AI, and decide what comes next.
• Set direction and choose the experiments for agent infrastructure: the gateway, internal MCPs, skills and cloud runners.
• Make build, integrate and buy calls across vendors such as Claude and Codex as models change.
• Drive cost per pull request down while output goes up.
• Take SRE AI from two teams to every team, and build the trust that lets it take more automated actions.

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs across the U.S.: $198k a year (942 listings, 57 employers). This listing is 15% higher.
• Across Samsara's 55 open listings, 0% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Samsara hires

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