Senior Engineering Manager - Tax Platform

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 365—all within 90 seconds. Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.8B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes. We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @ Rippling.com addresses. 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. Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.85B+ from the world's top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes. We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses. About the Tax Platform: Rippling's Tax Calculation engine is the computational core of our payroll platform - the system that ensures every dollar withheld and remitted is accurate, compliant, and explainable for every employee, in every jurisdiction, at any scale. This role leads the team responsible for computing taxes correctly across 5,000+ US tax codes for 1M+ employees today, and expanding that precision globally to 10+ countries tomorrow. The team is at a critical inflection point. We are making significant investments to stabilize and harden the tax engine - reducing operational toil, eliminating manual interventions, and building toward a system that is fully autonomous and self-correcting. This is not a role for someone who wants to manage from a distance. We need a leader who will go deep, get their hands dirty, and drive the technical and operational transformation from the front. What You Will Need We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager who combines technical depth with strong execution instincts. This role requires someone who can earn the trust of a senior engineering team by understanding the system as well as they do — and then leading it to a better place. Technical Depth : Must be comfortable going deep into complex systems — reading code, debugging production issues, reviewing architecture, and identifying root causes. Hands-on instinct is essential at this stage of the team's journey. Operational Transformation : Experience taking a high-toil, operationally demanding system and driving it toward stability and autonomy. Track record of identifying systemic issues and fixing them, not just managing around them. Product & Platform Experience : Hands-on experience building scalable platform systems end-to-end. Comfortable owning both technical architecture and product outcomes. Stakeholder Collaboration : Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams — Payroll, Compliance, Finance Engineering, and global stakeholders. Execution-Driven : Clear track record of setting roadmaps, defining milestones, and shipping in high-ambiguity environments. People Leadership : Minimum 5 years in a managerial role, including 2+ years managing managers, with 7–8 years as an IC prior. Domain Affinity : Experience in payroll, tax, fintech, or high-correctness financial systems is strongly preferred. Communication : Clear and effective communi