Staff Software Engineer - Workflows Platform
New York, NY, San Francisco, CA$180k - $315kfull-timePosted 10mo ago
About the role
Staff Software Engineer role on the Automation Platform team responsible for building next-generation automation products and infrastructure (Workflow Studio, Triggers, execution platform) that combine employee data, integrations, and AI-enabled workflows to automate work across HR, IT, Finance, and third-party apps.
Responsibilities
- Develop high quality software with attention to detail
- Ship incrementally and continually at high velocity
- Jump into different and new codebases and diagnose issues quickly
- Build for systems that scale for a large variety of use cases
- Tackle large scaling challenges to support 100,000+ employee companies
- Work highly cross functionally with engineering leaders across the engineering org
- Become the in-house expert on Rippling customers and competition
Qualifications
- 7+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience building large-scale distributed systems, such as high-volume SaaS environments
- Preferred experience in building out large scale product infrastructures/platforms
- Preferred experience in our technology stack and similar technologies - Python, Golang, React, MongoDB, Temporal, Kafka, AWS
- Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment by identifying areas of impact and independently pursuing them
- A track record of influencing and enabling forward-thinking technology decisions across a wide organization
- Excellent ability to communicate complex technical ideas with clarity and precision in written and verbal modes
Skills
Required:Software engineeringDistributed systems
Nice to have:PythonGolangReactMongoDBTemporalKafkaAWS
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Benefits
- Equity
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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