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Staff Software Engineer

Rippling· Engineering
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Bangalore, Indiafull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer at Rippling, a hands-on technical leader responsible for solving complex engineering problems, designing and building large-scale systems, and mentoring others while maintaining close code involvement.

Responsibilities

  • Build at scale: Design, build, and operate reliable, scalable, and high-performance systems that power critical Rippling products.
  • Own complex technical problems: Take ambiguous, high-impact engineering problems and drive them from architecture through implementation and production.
  • Stay hands-on: Write production code, review critical code paths, debug complex issues, and make implementation-level technical decisions.
  • Drive architecture: Define technical designs and make thoughtful trade-offs across scalability, performance, reliability, security, maintainability, and development velocity.
  • Lead technical initiatives: Drive large engineering projects that may span multiple systems, teams, or product areas.
  • Build reusable systems: Create platforms, APIs, abstractions, and infrastructure that can be leveraged by multiple teams and products across Rippling.
  • Solve for reliability: Design systems with strong principles around resiliency, observability, availability, data integrity, and operational excellence.
  • Partner with Product: Work closely with Product Managers and Engineering leaders to understand customer problems and influence both product and technical direction.
  • Raise the engineering bar: Improve engineering practices through design reviews, code reviews, technical standards, documentation, and thoughtful technical guidance.
  • Mentor engineers: Help other engineers improve their system design, technical judgment, execution, and ownership.
  • Think ahead: Identify architectural bottlenecks and technical risks before they become limitations to Rippling's growth.

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience building and operating large-scale production systems.
  • Strong hands-on programming ability and a desire to remain close to code, debugging, design reviews, and implementation details.
  • Strong programming experience in one or more languages such as Python, Go/Golang, Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, or C#.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalable system design.
  • Strong fundamentals across APIs, data modeling, databases, concurrency, performance, caching, reliability, and production operations.
  • Experience designing systems that handle significant scale, traffic, data volume, or complex business workflows.
  • Strong understanding of system resiliency, SLAs/SLOs, observability, monitoring, and operational excellence.
  • Experience designing clean APIs, services, and abstractions that can evolve as products and engineering organizations scale.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity, identify the most important technical problems, and independently drive them toward resolution.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technically complex initiatives involving multiple engineers or teams without relying on formal authority.
  • Strong product intuition and the ability to connect technical decisions with customer and business outcomes.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical quality of the teams around you.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical ideas clearly.

Skills

Required:Software engineeringProgramming languagesDistributed systemsAPI designObservability / SRE
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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