Senior Engineering Manager, AI Developer Experience
Lead the AI Developer Experience team building productivity platforms, AI-powered workflows, and tooling to accelerate 1,000+ engineers. Requires 8+ years engineering experience and 4+ years management.
About the job
What you will do
- Lead and grow the engineering team responsible for developer productivity and engineering velocity
- Define Rippling's long-term strategy for AI-assisted software development
- Build and scale AI-powered workflows for coding, testing, debugging, code review, and operational support
- Drive adoption of agentic development workflows across the engineering organization
- Own local development tooling, build systems, and CI/CD platforms
- Lead initiatives to improve developer efficiency, onboarding, and engineering satisfaction
- Partner with engineering leaders to identify productivity bottlenecks and deliver scalable solutions
- Drive the evolution of large-scale codebase management, build performance, and developer workflows
- Develop engineers and technical leaders while fostering a culture of innovation and experimentation
What you will need
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- 4+ years of engineering management experience
- Experience building developer platforms, internal tools, or engineering productivity systems
- Strong understanding of modern software development workflows and CI/CD ecosystems
- Experience with large-scale codebases, build systems, and developer tooling
- Demonstrated interest or experience applying AI to software engineering workflows
- Strong product mindset with a focus on developer experience and adoption
- Ability to operate in ambiguous, rapidly evolving technical domains
- Experience leading senior engineers, Staff Engineers, and Principal Engineers
Skills
Ai-Assisted Development, Developer Platforms, CI/CD, Build Systems, Local Development Tooling, Large-Scale Codebases, Engineering Productivity Systems, Agentic Workflows, Developer Experience
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