# Director of Engineering - Infrastructure

**Company:** [Rippling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rippling)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Python, Django, Go, React, MongoDB, Trino, Pinot, Kafka, Postgres, AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD
**Posted:** 2025-04-07

> Leads unification of observability, internal tools, and application frameworks to boost developer productivity. Drives high-impact projects, roadmaps, and execution on infrastructure including compute, data, and DevX for 1,000+ engineers. Requires 10+ YOE in engineering with 5+ in leadership.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do

- Acting as a technical leader within the Engineering organization.
- Identifying and advocating for high impact projects that involve multiple stakeholders across the organization.
- Taking ambiguous technical and organizational problem statements, turning them into an actionable plan and then executing on it with the team.
- Executing and driving alignment against requirements involving complex and interdependent systems related to internal development platforms, the infrastructure which underpin them and the developer tools that support them.

## Qualifications

- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in technical leadership/management roles
- Preferred experience in building out framework and infrastructure solutions used by internal developers in a fast-paced devops environment
- Preferred experience in building, and/or leading teams who have built, tooling, compute infrastructure and data infrastructure serving internal teams
- Bonus points for experience in developer tooling and reliability
- Preferred experience in our technology stack: **Python**, **Django**, **Golang**, **React**, **MongoDB**, **Trino**, **Pinot**, **Kafka**, **Postgres**, **AWS**
- Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment by identifying areas of impact and independently pursuing them
- A track record of influencing and enabling forward-thinking technology decisions across a wide organization
- Excellent ability to communicate complex technical ideas with clarity and precision in written and verbal modes

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