Senior Engineering Manager - Platform
Leads and grows a platform engineering organization responsible for shared infrastructure and product foundations, including data deletion, internationalisation, webscripts, and configuration services. Requires 12+ years of software engineering experience and strong cross-functional technical leadership.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of engineers working on critical platform charters.
- Own technical strategy and execution for Data Deletion, Webscripts, Internationalisation, and Rippling Config Service.
- Partner with product, design, compliance, security, and infrastructure teams to define roadmaps and delivery plans.
- Drive architecture reviews and ensure systems are reliable, scalable, maintainable, and secure.
- Establish clear ownership, operational excellence, and engineering quality across multiple platform surfaces.
- Balance short-term product needs with long-term platform investments.
- Mentor senior engineers and engineering leads, helping them grow their technical judgment and leadership.
- Improve execution rigor through planning, prioritization, metrics, incident reviews, and continuous process improvement.
- Represent the team in cross-functional forums and communicate tradeoffs clearly to senior leadership.
Requirements
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years managing engineering teams.
- Experience leading platform, infrastructure, developer productivity, or shared product-surface teams.
- Strong technical judgment and ability to reason about distributed systems, data models, APIs, reliability, and scale.
- Proven ability to lead ambiguous, cross-functional charters with multiple stakeholders.
- Experience managing senior engineers and driving alignment across teams.
- Strong execution discipline, including roadmap planning, project delivery, operational metrics, and incident follow-through.
- Ability to balance product velocity with long-term platform quality.
- Clear written and verbal communication, especially around tradeoffs and technical strategy.
Nice to Have
- Experience with privacy, compliance, data lifecycle, or data deletion systems, including GDPR and CCPA.
- Experience building internal platforms or frameworks used by many product teams.
- Experience with internationalisation or localisation systems.
- Experience with configuration platforms, feature or configuration rollout systems, or policy/configuration management.
- Experience with low-code, scripting, workflow, or extensibility platforms.
Benefits and Compensation
- The company values in-office collaboration and culture. Office-based employees are currently expected to work in the office at least three days per week.
Skills
Distributed Systems, Data Models, APIs, Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure, Developer Productivity, GDPR, CCPA, Configuration Management, Scripting, Workflow Platforms, Localization
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