Rippling · 2 hours ago
Senior Engineering Manager - Payroll Data
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$198K/yr - $346K/yr
5+ years expRippling is a company that provides a unified platform for HR, IT, and Finance. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Payroll Data team, responsible for scaling critical data infrastructure that supports their Global Payroll product ecosystem.
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Responsibilities
Scale and Build the Team: Grow a high-performing team from 4 to 10+ engineers over the next year, hiring top talent in SF and establishing a culture of technical rigor and operational excellence
Architect the Data Strategy: Partner with Principal and Staff engineers to design a unified data query layer that seamlessly combines batch and real-time processing, moving away from scattered solutions to a cohesive platform
Build, Own the Infra & Pipelines: Build underlying ETL infra & manage the end-to-end lifecycle of critical data pipelines, including those for pay stubs, standard/custom reports, downstream tax/accounting integrations, and our cutting-edge AI systems
Drive Non-Functional Excellence: Go beyond feature delivery to obsess over the "ilities"—scalability, observability, reusability, and debuggability. You will ensure our data infrastructure is reliable and easy to build upon
Bridge the Gap: Act as the technical liaison between Payroll and the Core Platform org (Object Graph, Reporting, RQL). You will articulate complex design decisions and influence the roadmap for how payroll data is stored and accessed
Execute on High-Impact Initiatives: Lead the team in extending data platform capabilities, solving deep interoperability problems, and migrating legacy data flows to modern, performant standards
Qualification
Required
5+ years of management experience, with a track record of leading teams that blend product engineering with backend infrastructure
Deep technical experience in data engineering, data pipelines, or ETL systems. You have likely worked at data-focused companies building complex data products
You are hands-on enough to dive into design discussions with Staff engineers regarding data materialization, schema design, and system interoperability. You understand the trade-offs between batch and real-time systems
Exceptional communication skills with the ability to collaborate across time zones and functions. You can effectively align goals with AI, Platform, and external vendor integration teams
You understand that you are building internal platforms that serve product needs. You care about the developer experience of the engineers consuming your data as much as the end-user experience
Benefits
Competitive salary
Benefits
Equity
Company
Rippling
Rippling is a workforce management platform that unifies HR, IT, and finance operations into a single system.
1001-5000 employees
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2021 (33)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$2.44BKey Investors
CoatueGreenoaksFounders Fund
2025-05-09Series G· $450M
2024-04-22Series F· $200M
2024-04-22Secondary Market· $590M
Leadership Team
Albert Strasheim
Chief Technology Officer
Adil Syed
CFO
Recent News
2025-12-29
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