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Senior Engineering Manager, Tools and Observability

Rippling· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco Bay Area)$207k - $345kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior Engineering Manager leading the Tools and Observability team within Rippling’s Infrastructure organization, responsible for internal developer tooling, platform self-service capabilities, and logging/metrics/tracing/error-monitoring infrastructure to improve developer productivity and system visibility.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a team responsible for Rippling’s internal developer tooling and observability infrastructure
  • Define the long-term technical strategy and roadmap for developer productivity, tooling, and observability
  • Build and evolve internal tools and self-service capabilities that simplify how engineers develop, troubleshoot, and operate services
  • Own the reliability, scalability, and usability of logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and error-monitoring systems
  • Partner with engineering teams to understand their needs, prioritize improvements, and drive adoption of shared tools and platforms
  • Establish best practices for instrumentation, actionable alerting, and production debugging
  • Lead initiatives across engineering organizations that improve developer workflows and reduce operational overhead
  • Develop and mentor engineers while maintaining a strong culture of ownership and technical excellence
  • Drive improvements in observability coverage, platform performance, and cost efficiency

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience
  • 4+ years of engineering management experience
  • Experience leading teams that build internal developer tools, shared engineering platforms, or observability infrastructure
  • Strong technical depth in distributed systems and cloud-based production environments
  • Experience building or operating logging, metrics, tracing, or error-monitoring systems at scale
  • A strong developer experience mindset, with the ability to translate engineering needs into intuitive, widely adopted tools
  • Strong operational judgment, including experience improving production troubleshooting, alerting, and incident response
  • Experience developing senior engineers, Staff Engineers, and Principal Engineers
  • Excellent cross-functional leadership and communication skills, with the ability to drive initiatives across engineering teams

Skills

Required:Internal developer toolingObservability infrastructureDistributed systems

Benefits

  • Competitive salary + benefits + equity
  • Office-based work policy with in-office requirement (essential function for those near Rippling offices)
  • Diversity and inclusion commitments
  • Accommodations during hiring process available upon request
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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