Head of Core Infra & Platform Engineering

Rippling; Seattle, San Francisco (WA, CA); Vor Ort; USD 210.000 - 270.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Rippling is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to shape the core cloud infrastructure that powers its platform. You will lead engineers delivering shared data and production systems that many teams depend on, with a focus on reliability and scalability.

You will own platform architecture and guide teams through design decisions, growth, and cost optimization while mentoring senior engineers and maintaining a high standard of technical excellence.

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including platform, data, backend, or distributed systems.
• 4+ years of engineering management experience leading teams that build and operate production systems.
• Strong technical depth in system design, data modeling, APIs, and scalable service architecture.
• Experience building shared platforms or infrastructure adopted by multiple products or engineering teams.
• Ability to engage in technical design, evaluate tradeoffs, and guide engineers through difficult implementation decisions.
• Experience leading systems through growth, including performance, reliability, and data architecture.
• Track record of developing senior engineers into technical leaders.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills to bring clarity to high-impact problems.

Aufgaben

• Lead and grow a team responsible for Rippling’s core cloud infrastructure and production platform.
• Define the long-term strategy for infrastructure scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Own Kubernetes platform architecture, cluster management, and production infrastructure lifecycle.
• Drive infrastructure automation through Infrastructure as Code and platform self-service capabilities.
• Establish best practices around observability, monitoring, incident response, and disaster recovery.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve system reliability, deployment safety, and operational efficiency.
• Lead large-scale infrastructure initiatives spanning multiple engineering organizations.
• Develop and mentor engineers while maintaining a culture of ownership and technical excellence.
• Drive improvements in cost efficiency, capacity planning, and cloud resource management.

Kenntnisse

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Leadership

Infrastructure as Code

Kubernetes

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Jobbeschreibung

Rippling is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to shape the core cloud infrastructure that powers its platform. You will lead engineers delivering shared data and production systems that many teams depend on, with a focus on reliability and scalability.

You will own platform architecture and guide teams through design decisions, growth, and cost optimization while mentoring senior engineers and maintaining a high standard of technical excellence.