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Staff Software Engineer - Rippling AI

Rippling· Engineering
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Hybrid (Bangalore)Full-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer role building core AI Platform infrastructure at Rippling, leading cross-functional initiatives, shaping architecture, and delivering production-grade AI-enabled systems and platform primitives used by multiple product teams.

Responsibilities

  • Own major AI Platform initiatives across backend, platform, infrastructure, and AI-enabled systems.
  • Lead design and execution for systems supporting agents, evals, automation, data pipelines, model quality, sandboxing, scaling, latency, and reliability.
  • Act as a technical lead for cross-functional work involving Product, Infra, Platform, AI, and Engineering teams.
  • Break down ambiguous technical problems into clear architecture and execution plans.
  • Write code, review critical code paths, debug production issues, and make implementation-level decisions.
  • Build platform systems that can be reused by multiple product teams across Rippling.
  • Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and technical guidance.
  • Balance speed, quality, reliability, and long-term platform maintainability.

Qualifications

  • 10–15 years of software engineering experience, preferably in backend, platform, infrastructure, distributed systems, AI platform, or product engineering.
  • Strong hands-on coding ability; must be willing to remain close to code, debugging, design reviews, and implementation details.
  • Strong programming knowledge in one or more languages such as Python, Java, Go/Golang, C++, Scala, Kotlin, or C#.
  • Proven experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
  • Experience in high-growth or hyper-growth startup/product environments is strongly preferred.
  • Strong system design and architecture fundamentals across APIs, databases, data modeling, concurrency, reliability, observability, and production operations.
  • Ability to lead ambiguous, cross-functional technical initiatives without formal authority.
  • Strong product intuition and ability to connect technical decisions to customer and business impact.
  • Ability to mentor engineers and raise the technical bar while continuing to code.
  • Practical exposure or strong curiosity around AI agents, LLM infrastructure, agentic workflows, ML/data infrastructure, inference pipelines, evals, fine-tuning, post-training, or automation systems.

Skills

Required:Software engineeringProgramming languages

Benefits

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Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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