# Senior Engineering Manager - Platform

**Company:** [Rippling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rippling)
**Location:** Bengaluru, India
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Data Models, APIs, Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure, Developer Productivity, GDPR, CCPA, Configuration Management, Scripting, Workflow Platforms, Localization
**Posted:** 2026-07-02

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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