Engineering Manager, Data Platform – Managed Connectors

Rippling; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is building a Data Cloud that powers analytics across 30+ products, and the Managed Connectors team is a critical part of that platform. As the Engineering Manager for Managed Connectors, you’ll lead this charter from India, owning the platform that brings data from Salesforce, GitHub, Google Calendar, databases, and other third‑party apps into Rippling’s analytics ecosystem.

Today, the Data Cloud runs 60,000+ analytical workloads daily, with growth expected as we scale.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years in software development and delivery, with deep knowledge of software architectures
• At least 3 years of Engineering Manager experience leading development teams
• Strong foundation in backend engineering, distributed systems, data infrastructure, or platform engineering
• Experience owning complex systems from architecture through production
• Hands-on leader who guides technical decisions and mentoring

Responsibilities

• Own the Managed Connectors charter end-to-end from strategy to operations
• Define the team's roadmap in partnership with Product and Data Cloud leadership
• Build scalable distributed systems that ingest data from external sources
• Establish reliability, quality, observability, and operational excellence
• Shape team culture, hiring strategy, and technical direction as the organization grows
• Drive automation to simplify building and operating connectors

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Data infrastructure

Platform engineering

Team leadership

Architectures

Job description

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 $1.8B+ 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 is building a Data Cloud that powers analytics and intelligence across 30+ products, and the Managed Connectors team is a critical part of that platform.

As the Engineering Manager for Managed Connectors, you’ll build and lead this charter from India, owning the platform that brings data from systems such as Salesforce, GitHub, Google Calendar, databases, and other third-party applications into Rippling’s analytics ecosystem.

Today, the Data Cloud runs 60,000+ analytical workloads every day, with that scale expected to grow to hundreds of thousands of workloads as we expand the platform.

This is a highly technical EM role. You’ll stay close to architecture and system design, lead a strong engineering team, partner with Product on roadmap and strategy, and help define how Rippling builds and operates connectors at scale.

About The Team

The Managed Connectors team is responsible for integrating data from external sources and internal Rippling products to fuel the company’s analytics ecosystem. We build the bridges that allow our customers to bring in data from sources such as GitHub, Salesforce, and Google Calendar to drive deep insights and trends analysis.

The broader organization has 30+ engineers across San Francisco, Toronto, and Bangalore. The Managed Connectors team builds the infrastructure that allows customers to bring external and internal data into the platform reliably and at scale.

What You Will Do

• Own the Managed Connectors charter end-to-end, from technical strategy and architecture through execution and operations
• Define the team's roadmap in partnership with Product and Data Cloud leadership
• Build scalable distributed systems that reliably ingest data from a wide variety of external sources
• Create strong engineering mechanisms around reliability, quality, observability, and operational excellence
• Help shape the team's culture, hiring strategy, and technical direction as the organization grows
• Drive automation that makes building and operating connectors dramatically more efficient

What You Will Need

• At least 8 years of experience in software development and delivery, with in-depth knowledge of software architectures; and at least 3 years of experience as an Engineering Managers in leading development teams
• A strong technical foundation in backend engineering, distributed systems, data infrastructure, or platform engineering
• Experience owning complex systems from architecture through production
• The ability to lead engineers while remaining deeply hands-on and engaged in technical decision-making
• Team development skills: ability to set a roadmap and goals for a team and every one of its members, delegate intelligently, offer engineering advice, deliver frequent and transparent feedback, work with team members to grow in their careers, and ensure everyone delivers quality results
• Experience working across engineering, product, and other stakeholder teams to drive ambiguous initiatives to completion

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 [e-mail]

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.