Senior Engineering Manager

About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.2B from the worlds top investorsincluding Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrockand was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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Are you ready to lead a talented team in one of the most exciting and fast-paced environments at Rippling? As the Senior Manager for the Unity Platform Team in India, youll play a pivotal role in taking our platform to the next level. Your mission: enhance, scale, and build brand-new capabilities into the Unity platform.

This isnt just a leadership roleits a builders role. Youll help shape the future of our platform, transforming ideas into enterprise-class solutions which work at an internet scale that support Ripplings growth and innovation. Youll work closely with Product Managers, Infrastructure teams, and global counterparts to ensure the Unity platform is the backbone of high-performing, reliable, and user-centric services.

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, love tackling tough technical challenges, and are obsessed with delivering both speed and quality, we want to hear from you

• Drive Platform Innovation: Lead the charge to enhance the Unity platform. Youll scale it to handle massive traffic while improving reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Build Whats Next: From 0 to 1 and beyonddesign and deliver new platform capabilities that solve todays challenges and prepare us for the future.
• Collaborate and Connect: Partner with Product Managers, Infrastructure teams, and engineering leads across Rippling to align on goals and deliverables. Youll ensure the platform is easy to adopt, valuable to use, and a pleasure to work with.
• Deliver at High Speed, Without Compromise: Strike the perfect balance between speed and quality. Youll lead your team to deliver features with precision and operational excellence.
• Focus on Operational Excellence: Build a culture of reliability, accountability, and continuous improvement. Youll set high standards for uptime, monitoring, and incident management.
• Mentor and Grow Your Team: Build a high-performing, motivated team. Youll provide mentorship, guidance, and support to help your team members thrive and deliver their best work.
• Collaborate Globally: Work seamlessly with global counterparts, especially in the US, to align on priorities and drive a shared vision.

• 15 years of deep technical expertise, with a focus on distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
• At least 4 years of leadership experience, with a track record of managing high-performing engineering teams.
• Proven Leadership: Youve led engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable platforms. You know how to build high-performing teams and keep them motivated.
• Operational Focus: Youre a pro at designing for uptime, managing SLAs/SLOs, and building robust monitoring and incident response systems.
• Collaborative Mindset: Youre skilled at partnering with product and infrastructure teams, bridging technical and business needs.
• Global Experience: Youre comfortable working across regions and time zones, fostering a collaborative global team culture.
• Exceptional Communication: You can simplify complex technical ideas for stakeholders and keep everyone aligned on goals.
• Technical Expertise:
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture.
  • Experience building platforms for large-scale, enterprise-grade applications.
  • Strong track record of delivering features quickly while maintaining high quality and reliability.
  • Ability to take a platform from concept (0 to 1) and scale it to meet the demands of global enterprises.

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics. Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email

Rippling highly values in-office collaboration. Employees living within 30 miles of an office are expected to work onsite three days a week with those living miles away expected to be in the office one day a week. Employees living over 50 miles away are required to relocate within 30 miles of an office. To enhance team cohesiveness, new employees are asked to work onsite three days a week for their first six months.

This role will receive a competitive salary benefits equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here. A variety of factors are considered when determining someones compensationincluding a candidates professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.

Locations: Bangalore, India