Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure

What you will do

• Lead and grow a team responsible for Rippling's core cloud infrastructure and production platform
• Define the long-term strategy for infrastructure scalability, reliability, and operational excellence
• Own Kubernetes platform architecture, cluster management, and production infrastructure lifecycle
• Drive infrastructure automation through Infrastructure as Code and platform self-service capabilities
• Establish best practices around observability, monitoring, incident response, and disaster recovery
• Partner with engineering teams to improve system reliability, deployment safety, and operational efficiency
• Lead large-scale infrastructure initiatives spanning multiple engineering organizations
• Develop and mentor engineers while maintaining a strong culture of ownership and technical excellence
• Drive improvements in cost efficiency, capacity planning, and cloud resource management

What you will need

• 8+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience
• 4+ years of engineering management experience
• Deep expertise in AWS and large-scale cloud infrastructure
• Strong experience operating Kubernetes in production environments
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and Helm
• Experience leading highly available distributed systems at scale
• Strong operational mindset with experience managing production incidents and reliability programs
• Experience developing senior engineers, Staff Engineers, and Principal Engineers
• Excellent cross-functional leadership and communication skills