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Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Rippling AI

Rippling· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco, NY)$168k - $280kfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior Engineer on AI Platform building the autonomous operating system for work, enabling Rippling AI and scalable agent infrastructure across product surfaces.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end technical design and implementation for high-impact AI platform initiatives from design through production
  • Collaborate closely with engineers across product, infra, and platform organizations
  • Build scalable agent infrastructure that automates repetitive, high-frequency workflows across Rippling's product surface
  • Design systems that are observable, self-correcting, and capable of improving over time with minimal human intervention
  • Develop harness and platform capabilities that encode business logic and institutional knowledge into reliable, automated workflows
  • Partner closely with Product to ensure AI-powered surfaces are trustworthy, controllable, and intuitive for end users and admins
  • Mentor junior engineers, contribute to best practices for AI platform development, and raise the technical bar on your team
  • Track the frontier, translate model capability improvements into architectural decisions and move quickly when new approaches unlock better outcomes

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record of owning and delivering complex technical projects
  • Strong expertise in platform and distributed systems engineering — you've built reliable, observable, large-scale systems
  • Strong hands-on coding skills; you are an active, high-output contributor in the codebase
  • Experience driving technical initiatives end-to-end, including collaborating across teams to deliver outcomes
  • Strong product instincts — you translate ambiguous problems into durable platform capabilities and partner effectively with product teams
  • Clear, precise communication to diverse audiences, both written and verbal
  • Comfort with ambiguity and high velocity; the roadmap evolves as the technology evolves
  • Recent hands-on experience building AI agents is a plus

Skills

Required:Software engineeringDistributed systemsSystem design
Nice to have:AI / Agent development

Benefits

  • competitive salary
  • benefits
  • equity
  • office-based collaboration emphasis
  • accommodations available upon request
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Rippling eliminates the friction from running a business, combining HR, IT, and Finance apps on a unified data platform.

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