Technical Lead, IoT Device Observability

1 Month ago • 7 Years + • $148,000 PA - $185,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

We are seeking a Technical Line Manager to lead our IoT Device Observability team, responsible for ensuring device health, telemetry, and performance monitoring across our connected product fleet. You will guide a multidisciplinary team focused on building end-to-end observability systems from the device edge to the cloud, ensuring real-time insights, reliability, and visibility at scale. Responsibilities include leading engineers, defining roadmaps for device telemetry, driving best practices for monitoring, collaborating with various teams, implementing scalable data pipelines, ensuring robust alerting, and coaching team members.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS, EE, or related field
  • 7+ years of engineering experience
  • 2+ years leadership/management experience
  • Strong understanding of IoT architectures
  • Experience with cloud observability stacks
  • Proven track record managing teams building telemetry solutions
  • Excellent communication skills
Good to have:
  • Experience with OTA update systems
  • Prior work on large-scale IoT device fleets
  • Knowledge of data engineering pipelines
  • Understanding of IoT regulatory and security
Perks:
  • Health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits
  • Paid time off
  • Sick time off
  • Short term and long term disability coverage
  • Life insurance
  • 401k contribution

Job Details

Who we are:

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves more than 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

About the Role:

  • We are seeking a Technical Line Manager to lead our IoT Device Observability team, responsible for ensuring device health, telemetry, and performance monitoring across our connected product fleet. You will guide a multidisciplinary team focused on building end-to-end observability systems from the device edge to the cloud, ensuring real-time insights, reliability, and visibility at scale.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead a team of engineers across embedded systems, cloud, and data pipelines to design, build, and maintain observability infrastructure for IoT devices.
  • Define the long-term roadmap for device telemetry, logging, and diagnostics.
  • Drive best practices for monitoring device uptime, performance, and user experience.
  • Collaborate with firmware, backend, data, and product teams to align technical and business goals.
  • Implement scalable data pipelines to handle real-time and historical telemetry data.
  • Ensure robust alerting, anomaly detection, and root cause analysis systems.
  • Coach and mentor team members, promote a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
  • Balance hands-on technical involvement with people and project leadership.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
  • 7+ years of experience in engineering roles with at least 2 years in a leadership/management position.
  • Strong understanding of IoT architectures, embedded systems, and communication protocols (MQTT, CoAP, BLE, etc.).
  • Experience with cloud-based observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, AWS CloudWatch, etc.).
  • Proven track record of managing teams that build scalable telemetry and observability solutions.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD, DevOps practices, and monitoring in production environments.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with OTA (Over-the-Air) update systems and edge computing.
  • Prior work on large-scale IoT device fleets.
  • Knowledge of data engineering pipelines (Kafka, Spark, Flink) for telemetry.
  • Understanding of regulatory and security considerations in IoT environments.
Pay Transparency
Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visiting Motive Perks & Benefits.

The compensation range for this position will depend on where you reside. Motive uses three geographic zones to determine pay range. For this role, the compensation ranges are:

San Francisco, California

$189,000 - $240,000 USD

U.S. metropolitan areas: Los Angeles, San Diego, New York City Area, Seattle, Washington D.C.

$181,000 - $230,000 USD

Other locations in the United States

$148,000 - $185,000 USD

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. 

Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice here .

UK Candidate Privacy Notice here.

The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations. It is Motive's policy to require that employees be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology. 

#LI-Remote

Similar Jobs

Tennr - Sales Development Representative

Tennr

New York, New York, United States (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Ion - Senior Technical Consultant: Openlink: Systems Focus

Ion

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India (On-Site)
11 Months ago
Crowd Strick - Workday Integrations Developer

Crowd Strick

United States (Remote)
1 Year ago
Next Level Business Services - Sharepoint Architect (Full Time)

Next Level Business Services

Montvale, New Jersey, United States (On-Site)
9 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Similar Skill Jobs

Qube Cinema - Engineer – Technical Support (Broadcast)

Qube Cinema

Hyderabad, Telangana, India (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Grammarly - Senior Mixed Methods Researcher

Grammarly

San Francisco, California, United States (Hybrid)
2 Weeks ago
Haptic  - Lead Environment Artist

Haptic

Paris, Île-de-France, France (Remote)
7 Months ago
Lorikeet - Solutions Engineer

Lorikeet

United States (Remote)
1 Month ago
zimad - Legal Counsel

zimad

United States (Remote)
1 Month ago
Autodesk - Partner Principle Solutions Executive

Autodesk

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
1 Month ago
luxsoft - Senior Calypso Developer

luxsoft

Gurugram, India (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Justplay - Senior Product Manager - Engagement

Justplay

Berlin, Berlin, Germany (Hybrid)
3 Months ago
NVIDIA - Software Engineering Manager - Data Processing Libraries

NVIDIA

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (Remote)
6 Months ago
Wolters Kluwer - Firmware Engineer II

Wolters Kluwer

Reno, Nevada, United States (On-Site)
2 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Jobs in United States

Sesame - Product Designer

Sesame

San Francisco, California, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
JDA - Senior Business Strategist (Manufacturing)

JDA

United States (Remote)
2 Weeks ago
Sierra - Recruiter

Sierra

San Francisco, California, United States (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Marsh McLennan - Data Product Owner

Marsh McLennan

Bethesda, Maryland, United States (Hybrid)
2 Months ago
PayPal - Sr Analyst, Credit Underwriting

PayPal

Omaha, Nebraska, United States (Hybrid)
1 Month ago
Atari - Creative Designer, Product Packaging

Atari

United States (Remote)
3 Weeks ago
laika games - VFX Visual Development Artist

laika games

Hillsboro, Oregon, United States (Hybrid)
1 Month ago
Dave Ramsey - Associate Director of Product Design

Dave Ramsey

Franklin, Tennessee, United States (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Coherent corp. - Sr Buyer Planner

Coherent corp.

Bloomfield, Connecticut, United States (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Apple - AIML - Senior Engineering Program Manager, Search and Answer Quality

Apple

Cupertino, California, United States (On-Site)
1 Month ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Similar Category Jobs

Looks like we're out of matches

Set up an alert and we'll send you similar jobs the moment they appear!