Director of Engineering - Infrastructure

California Jobs; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 216,000 - 378,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead its Infrastructure team. This role involves unifying efforts across Observability, Internal Tools, and Application Frameworks, ensuring seamless operation within a fast-paced startup environment. The ideal candidate will possess a strong technical background, with a focus on delivering developer productivity through data-driven automation. Join a dynamic team that values technical leadership and the ability to drive impactful projects across multiple stakeholders. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of internal development at a rapidly growing company.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ in leadership roles.
• Experience in building framework and infrastructure solutions.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical leader within the Engineering organization.
• Drive alignment on requirements for complex internal development platforms.

Skills

Software Engineering

Technical Leadership

DevOps

Data Infrastructure

Developer Tooling

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Master's in Computer Science

Tools

Python

Django

Golang

React

MongoDB

AWS

Job description

Director of Engineering - Infrastructure

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.

We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.

About The Role

Rippling Infrastructure operates as a scaled team which owns and operates a variety of mission-critical systems. We support close to 1,000 Engineers building products and internal platforms at Rippling and deliver the most foundational parts of our internal technical infrastructure as part of the broader Platform organization. The team covers Compute (Containers and Traffic), Data (Document, Object, Relational, Streaming), Observability, Internal Tools, DevX, CI/CD and Application Frameworks and is distributed across 3 countries (US, India, Poland).

We have a strong combination of deep technical expertise, technical leadership and the ability to get a lot done in an extremely ambitious (which we are as a company), ambiguous and fast-moving startup environment. The overall team is running well and individual teams show strong ownership and are well supported by their managers. We are actively hiring into multiple teams and will continue expanding into 2025.

We are looking for a leader who can unify the work we do between Observability, Internal Tools and Application Frameworks so that it operates as a cohesive unit at the foundation of our development framework. This will involve developing a compelling 3-12 month roadmap and executing well on it. The ideal candidate obsesses about delivering developer productivity through data-driven automation, knows how to design powerful framework solutions that stay out of the way and has strong developer empathy. They operate well across internal customer teams with multiple competing priorities in a dynamic environment.

What You'll Do

• Acting as a technical leader within the Engineering organization.
• Identifying and advocating for high impact projects that involve multiple stakeholders across the organization.
• Taking ambiguous technical and organizational problem statements, turning them into an actionable plan and then executing on it with the team.
• Executing and driving alignment against requirements involving complex and interdependent systems related to internal development platforms, the infrastructure which underpin them and the developer tools that support them.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in technical leadership/management roles
• Preferred experience in building out framework and infrastructure solutions used by internal developers in a fast-paced devops environment
• Preferred experience in building, and/or leading teams who have built, tooling, compute infrastructure and data infrastructure serving internal teams
• Bonus points for experience in developer tooling and reliability
• Preferred experience in our technology stack: Python, Django, Golang, React, MongoDB, Trino, Pinot, Kafka, Postgres, AWS
• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment by identifying areas of impact and independently pursuing them
• A track record of influencing and enabling forward-thinking technology decisions across a wide organization
• Excellent ability to communicate complex technical ideas with clarity and precision in written and verbal modes

Additional Information:

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.

We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.

The pay range for this role is:

216,000 - 378,000 USD per year (US Tier 1)