Rippling
Senior Engineering Manager, Tools and Observability
$207K–$345K
Seattle, WA +2 · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
San Francisco, CA
New York, NY - Experience
- 8+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience; 4+ years of engineering management experience.
About the job
Leads the team building internal developer tools and observability systems that help engineers develop, operate, and troubleshoot production services at scale.
What you'll do
- Lead and grow the team; set the technical strategy and roadmap for developer productivity, tooling, and observability.
- Build internal tools and self-service capabilities, and own the reliability, scalability, and usability of observability systems.
- Partner across engineering to improve workflows, establish instrumentation and alerting practices, and develop engineers.
What they ask for
- Experience leading teams building 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.
- Operational judgment and experience improving production troubleshooting, alerting, and incident response.
Pay
USD 207,000–345,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
logging, metrics, distributed tracing, error-monitoring
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