Engineering Manager - Inventory Management - IT

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 186,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Competitive salary

Job summary

Rippling is 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, orchestrating hardware provisioning, configuration, and device lifecycles across global warehouses and end-user assignments.

Qualifications

• Experience leading and mentoring an engineering team.
• Strong track record in AI workflow deployment.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems and system architecture.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product and identity teams.
• Ability to optimize IT automation and internal platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of 7 engineers to high velocity and quality.
• Own the IT automation infrastructure and platform interfaces.
• Modernize internal systems and multi-system communications.
• Contribute to system-level trade-offs and architecture decisions.
• Partner with Inventory, Identity, Devices, and Product teams.

Skills

Lead and mentor

Team management

AI workflows

Distributed systems

System architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

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 $1.4B+ 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

• 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.

What You Will Do

• 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 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)