Senior Engineering Manager, IT Product Team

About The Role

We are seeking a deeply technical Senior Engineering Manager (M8 level) to lead a high-impact engineering team building a scalable, fully automated IT product and infrastructure ecosystem. This team sits at the critical intersection of core internal enterprise systems, automated workflows, and modern cloud/systems architecture. You will be responsible for transforming legacy, manual operational footprints into high-performance, automated software systems that scale IT management across various enterprise landscapes.

What We Build

• Device Management (MDM): Developing systems to securely enroll, configure, manage, and inventory corporate devices (macOS, Windows, iOS, etc.), including policy enforcement and remote wipe capabilities.
• App Management & Identity: Creating the centralized platform for provisioning and de-provisioning employee access to hundreds of third-party SaaS applications, ensuring instant security and compliance through integrated identity and access management (IAM).
• Inventory & Asset Management: Building the core financial and logistical systems to track physical assets, manage software licenses, and automate IT procurement from device ordering to deployment.
• Security & Compliance: Developing the mechanisms for setting, managing, and enforcing security policies across all devices and applications, ensuring employee and corporate data remain protected.

What You Will Do

• Lead and Mentor: Direct a team of 12 engineers, focusing heavily on upleveling execution velocity and technical excellence through the deployment of modern AI workflows.
• Own IT Automation Infrastructure: Drive the end-to-end automation infrastructure, internal product interfaces, and systems architecture required to resolve core enterprise IT platform dependencies.
• Modernize Operational Systems Plumbing: Restructure underlying internal engines to automate manual workflows and multi-system communications, building a unified software control plane for the business.
• Stay Deeply Technical: Participate directly in evaluating system-level trade-offs, architecture decisions, distributed systems design, and core systems plumbing alongside your senior staff.
• Partner Cross-Functionally: Collaborate closely with cross-org technology leadership teams (such as Inventory Management, Identity, Devices, and Product) to build integrated, proactive internal product landscapes.

What You Will Need

• Robust Engineering Leadership: Proven track record leading senior engineering talent within startups or fast-paced, high-leverage environments where driving extreme execution efficiency without ballooning headcount is a core tenet.
• Deep Backend & Infrastructure Foundation: Non-negotiable technical depth in backend systems engineering, distributed architecture, and process automation plumbing. You must be technical enough to command the respect of senior staff and evaluate system-level trade-offs.
• AI-Native Execution Mindset: Active experience utilizing modern developer workflows, automated tooling, and generative technologies to radically maximize team execution velocity and platform automation.
• Exceptional Ambiguity Tolerance: The ability to independently carve out net-new automated architectures from legacy, manual workflows amidst shifting product and business charters.
• Data-Driven Problem Solving: Strong reliance on validation metrics gathered directly via fleet observability, system performance data, and proactive monitoring infrastructure.
• Strong Executive Communication: The capability to clearly translate heavy engineering complexities into crisp, actionable business narratives for cross-functional partners and executive leadership.
• Domain Familiarity (Nice to Have): Strong background operating within core Enterprise IT domains such as Device Management (MDM), Identity and Access Management (IAM), IT Asset/Inventory Management, or Security and Compliance systems.

Benefits

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.

Pay

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 someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below. The pay range for this role is: 207,000 - 345,000 USD per year(US San Francisco Bay Area)