# Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure

**Company:** [Rippling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rippling)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA, New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $207k – $362k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Infrastructure As Code, Observability, Monitoring, Incident Response, Disaster Recovery, Capacity Planning
**Posted:** 2026-06-12

> Lead and grow the Cloud Infrastructure team responsible for Kubernetes, production reliability, and scalable cloud systems at Rippling. Requires 8+ years engineering experience and 4+ years of engineering management.

## Job Description

## 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

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