Engineering Manager - Emerging Products

Rippling; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 186,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is seeking an Engineering Manager for Inventory Management IT to lead a senior team building a scalable, automated IT product and infrastructure ecosystem. You will oversee global hardware provisioning, warehouse orchestration, and end-to-end device lifecycles, driving AI-enabled workflows and architecture decisions.

The role emphasizes hands-on technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and ownership of automation platforms within a fast-growing, in-office setting.

Qualifications

• Experience leading senior engineering teams.
• Strong background in IT automation and infrastructure.
• Ability to design scalable, high-throughput systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers to raise execution velocity and technical excellence.
• Own and drive IT automation infrastructure and internal product interfaces.
• Modernize software plumbing across internal engines and multi-system communications.
• Stay deeply technical, evaluating system-level trade-offs and architecture decisions.
• Partner with cross-org leadership to build integrated internal product landscapes and integrations.

Skills

Leadership

Team mentorship

Architectural thinking

AI workflows

Distributed systems

Job description

Engineering Manager - Inventory Management - IT

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

We are seeking a deeply technical Engineering Manager to lead a high-impact engineering team building a scalable, fully automated IT product and infrastructure ecosystem. At Rippling, our IT business unit bridges the gap between digital identity and physical hardware. The Inventory Management engineering team sits at the very heart of this ecosystem. We build the global system of record orchestrating our hardware supply chain, global warehouse networks, and end-to-end device lifecycles. When a customer hires an employee, our platform automates the entire provisioning, configuration, and device shipping pipeline—reconciling asynchronous, unpredictable human workflows in physical warehouses with atomic, high-throughput backend software states.

What We Build

We build the mission-critical software that simplifies IT for organizations, turning complex, manual processes into simple, one-click solutions. Our core product domains include:

• Global Supply Chain System of Record : Developing high-concurrency architecture to track physical hardware state transitions seamlessly across suppliers, global warehouse networks, transit hubs, and end-user assignments.


• Warehouse Integration & Async Reconciliation : Building robust software abstraction layers and event-driven engines to reconcile unpredictable, asynchronous physical warehouse workflows with strict, atomic database states.


• Predictive Inventory & Self-Healing Procurement : Designing AI-driven algorithms and automated workflows to forecast device demand across scaling customer bases, automatically mitigating supply chain friction and optimizing stock levels horizontally.


• Lifecycle & Asset Lifecycle Orchestration : Creating end-to-end operational software to manage hardware from purchase and inbound receiving to employee allocation, automated return processing, repair tracking, and secure asset retirement.

You will manage a lean, highly capable, and senior group of 7 cross-platform engineers navigating and leading with deep technical leverage, high execution velocity, and direct architectural impact. This role is ideal for an engineering leader who enjoys operating close to underlying infrastructure, possesses a high ambiguity tolerance for shifting charters, and acts as a multiplier by leveraging AI-driven developer workflows to eliminate operational overhead through software.

What You Will Do

• Lead and Mentor: Direct a team of 12 engineers, focusing heavily on upleveling execution velocity and technical excellence through the deployment of modern AI workflows.


• Own IT Automation Infrastructure: Drive the end-to-end automation infrastructure, internal product interfaces, and systems architecture required to resolve core enterprise IT platform dependencies.


• Modernize Operational Systems Plumbing: Restructure underlying internal engines to automate manual workflows and multi-system communications, building a unified software control plane for the business.


• Stay Deeply Technical: Participate directly in evaluating system-level trade-offs, architecture decisions, distributed systems design, and core systems plumbing alongside your senior staff.


• Partner Cross-Functionally: Collaborate closely with cross-org technology leadership teams (such as Inventory Management, Identity, Devices, and Product) to build integrated, proactive internal product landscapes.

What You Will Need

• Lead and Mentor : Direct a team of 7 engineers, focusing heavily on upleveling execution velocity and technical excellence through the deployment of modern AI workflows.


• Own IT Automation Infrastructure : Drive the end-to-end Inventory Management and IT hub infrastructure, internal product interfaces, and systems architecture required to resolve core enterprise IT platform dependencies.


• Modernize Operational Systems Plumbing : Restructure underlying internal engines to automate manual workflows and multi-tenant communications, building a unified software control plane for the business.


• Stay Deeply Technical : Participate directly in evaluating system-level trade-offs, architecture decisions, distributed systems design, and core systems plumbing alongside your senior staff.


• Partner Cross-Functionally : Collaborate closely with cross-org technology leadership teams (such as Inventory Management, Identity, Devices, and Product) to build integrated, proactive internal product landscapes as well as 3rd party systems and integrations.

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:

186,000 - 310,000 USD per year (US Tier 1)