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Staff Software Engineer - Platform

Rippling· Engineering
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San Francisco, CA$180k - $315kfull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer focusing on the Platform team to shape architecture, roadmap, and scalability at enterprise scale, with emphasis on distributed systems, developer experience, and AI-driven primitives for Rippling’s platform.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Technical Roadmap: Own the roadmap for one of our architectural areas, whether it’s moving our dependency tracking system to a micro-batch/stream processing powerhouse or redesigning our lambda interface for scale.
  • Think for the Future: Prototype with the newest AI tools to think about primitives that will be used to democratize development with Rippling.
  • Solve for Scale: Tackle our growing size and load and understand where we can be doing less work.
  • Own the Stack: Work deeply with infrastructure to manage complex distributed systems that power every Rippling product.
  • Operate as a Tech Lead: This is a "pure engineering" team. You will partner directly with other Platform Tech Leads and EMs (your primary customers) to define how Rippling’s core infrastructure evolves.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent on core platform teams.
  • Deep Distributed Systems Expertise: You have built and scaled systems that handle high QPS (10k+) and high data throughput.
  • Low-Level Enthusiast: You can dive into the details when needed to diagnose issue and can handle the technical depth
  • Developer First: Everywhere you go, you create scripts, leave breadcrumbs, and think about how to make the developers around you succeed
  • Language Agnostic: Proficiency in Python (or a strong desire to master it)

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsPython

Benefits

  • competitive salary + benefits + equity
  • see pay transparency for US location ranges
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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