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. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed and Sequoia.
About the role
Rippling’s Platform organization builds the foundational systems and shared capabilities that power our products and enable engineering teams to build quickly and reliably. Our teams solve complex technical challenges across backend infrastructure, shared services, developer frameworks, APIs, and data systems. These platforms support a growing suite of products and provide the scalability, reliability, and flexibility needed to serve businesses around the world. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience building backend platforms or distributed systems
- 4+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing teams
- Experience building shared platforms, infrastructure, frameworks, or services used by other engineering teams
- Strong technical depth in backend architecture and experience operating highly available systems at scale
- Strong architectural judgment and the ability to balance long-term investments with near-term business needs
- A track record of delivering complex initiatives involving multiple teams and stakeholders
More about this role
Rippling’s Platform organization builds the foundational systems and shared capabilities that power our products and enable engineering teams to build quickly and reliably.
Our teams solve complex technical challenges across backend infrastructure, shared services, developer frameworks, APIs, and data systems. These platforms support a growing suite of products and provide the scalability, reliability, and flexibility needed to serve businesses around the world.
We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team within Platform and help shape the technical direction of systems used across Rippling. This is a highly technical leadership role that combines architectural judgment, strong execution, and a commitment to developing exceptional engineers.
You’ll partner closely with engineering and product leaders to identify shared needs, build reusable capabilities, and balance long-term platform investments with immediate business priorities.
- Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team building foundational systems and shared platform capabilities
- Define your team’s technical strategy and roadmap in partnership with engineering and product stakeholders
- Drive the...
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