Senior Engineering Manager at Rippling

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 $1.85B+ 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.

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About the HRIS Product Team at Rippling:

• Rippling’s Employee Graph is the core of our product strategy — the system that understands every company’s structure at a fundamental level. 50,000-employee enterprises This role leads the team that defines and scales the “shape of the organisation” for every customer.
• What You’ll Own
• Employment Compliance
• Enterprise Graph Modelling: Build and scale the core data structures (Business Units, Cost Centres, Teams, Locations).
• Position Management: Create the foundational Job Template & Position system — defining levels, skills, pay bands, and union rules — enabling true position-based hiring across Rippling.
• Union & Workforce Rule Engine: Introduce Unions, prevailing wage logic, and hourly workforce rules into the core model, powering Payroll, Time & Attendance, and Compliance.

Why This Role Matters:

• Pure data-modelling Modelling + graph theory problem: You’ll architect the systems that allow us to reshuffle a 50k-person org without latency blowups or consistency failures.
• High strategic impact: These primitives (Job Templates, Unions, Position Mapping) unlock Rippling’s ability to win large enterprise deals against Workday and UKG.
• High-leverage leadership: Lead managers and senior ICs across Core Graph Scale and Enterprise Modelling — your schema decisions define the velocity of every downstream product team.

What You’ll Deliver in the First Year:

• Launch Job Templates & Unions — shifting Rippling from person-based to position-based modelling.
• Solve the “Re-Org Problem” — design systems that support massive, asynchronous division-level changes safely and quickly.
• Meet strict performance SLAs — ensuring low-latency read/write operations even as org graphs scale to tens of thousands of employees.
• The HR Products organisation is looking for a seasoned Senior Software Engineering Manager to join the team that owns one of Rippling's most critical and strategic product lines, Employment Products, which is among the most foundational products of Rippling. The areas of ownership for this role will require you to be a key owner of our Global Expansion efforts, which comes with high visibility and growth opportunities. This role will involve an outstanding blend of Technical savviness and Product development, the ability to look into and shape the overall architecture of the Product itself.

What you will need

• We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager who has a strong product-building mindset and thrives in high-ownership environments. Key expectations from the role include:
• Product Development Experience: Hands-on experience building scalable products end-to-end. Should have been closely involved in defining and delivering both small and large-scale projects.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Proven ability to work closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, both within India and globally. Strong collaboration and coordination skills are essential.
• Execution-Driven: Should be execution-oriented with a clear understanding of how to set up roadmaps, define milestones, and drive outcomes.
• People Leadership: Minimum of 5 years in a managerial role and in Managing Managers for at least 2 years, with prior experience of 7-8 years as an Individual Contributor. Must have experience leading engineering teams and mentoring developers.
• Technical Foundation: While deep technical hands-on experience is good to have at this stage, the candidate should have a sound understanding of tech and be able to guide and review effectively.
• Communication Skills: Clear and effective communication is a must, especially when working with distributed teams and stakeholders.
• Experience Range: Total experience of 12–17 years (IC + Managerial).

Additional Information:

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accomodations@rippling.com

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.