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Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure

207k – 362kSan Francisco, CASeattle, WANew York, NYHybrid8+ YOE
Summary

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.

About the role

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
Skills
AWSKubernetesTerraformHelmInfrastructure as CodeObservabilityMonitoringIncident ResponseDisaster RecoveryCapacity Planning
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