About Rippling Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.
Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.
Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.
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About The Role Rippling’s Infrastructure organization owns the mission-critical systems that power our entire product ecosystem, supporting over 1,000 engineers through a cohesive “Golden Path” for development.
As a Senior Engineering Manager (M8), you will lead two high-impact, U.S.-based teams: Cloud Infrastructure and Developer Experience. This role sits at the intersection of reliability and innovation—ensuring the stability of a large-scale production environment (including a 24M+ line monolith) while driving forward modern, AI-powered development workflows.
You will be responsible for scaling our infrastructure by driving engineering excellence, operational rigor, and predictable delivery. Your teams will own Kubernetes cluster management, high availability and disaster recovery strategy, and advanced developer tooling—including AI-assisted workflows and high-concurrency build systems like Bazel and Pants.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in AWS, a product mindset for internal platforms, and a track record of leading teams to build and operate high-impact distributed systems.
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Additional Information Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accommodations@rippling.com
Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.
This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.
A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.
The pay range for this role is: 207,000 - 362,250 USD per year(US San Francisco Bay Area)
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