Senior Engineering Manager, Risk & AI Automation

Rippling (Netherlands); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 345,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is expanding into a global, multi-product operating system and seeks a Senior Engineering Manager, Risk Engineering to lead the end-to-end horizontal financial risk decisioning platform across all Rippling product lines, including Payments, Corporate Card, Payroll, Spend Management, and Onboarding.

This role builds and operates the central safety and decisioning engine for every dollar moved, balancing real-time sub-second decisioning with high-throughput offline processing, and leads

Qualifications

• Leadership experience leading core platform, infrastructure, or risk engineering teams.
• Distributed systems architecture balancing low-latency real-time evaluation with large-scale offline batch processing.
• Domain expertise in financial technology, fraud mitigation, credit risk, or decisioning engine infrastructure.
• AI models or agentic automation integration into core operational workflows.
• Senior IC management of Staff-level engineers and multi-region engineering organizations.
• Cross-functional collaboration with Product, Finance, and Operations.

Responsibilities

• Direct the unified risk architecture to route 100% of Rippling's payments through a single risk engine.
• Design and scale an in-house no-code rule authoring platform for non-technical stakeholders to author and deploy risk logic.
• Architect and operationalize AI agents that synthesize fraud signals and evaluate risk profiles.
• Recruit, mentor, and lead a senior-heavy team of Staff and Senior Engineers in San Francisco.
• Establish high-velocity cross-functional operating models with extended international engineering pods.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Domain expertise

AI & agentic systems

Senior IC management

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Rippling is expanding into a global, multi-product operating system and seeks a Senior Engineering Manager, Risk Engineering to lead the end-to-end horizontal financial risk decisioning platform across all Rippling product lines, including Payments, Corporate Card, Payroll, Spend Management, and Onboarding.

This role builds and operates the central safety and decisioning engine for every dollar moved, balancing real-time sub-second decisioning with high-throughput offline processing, and leads