Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.
Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.
Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.
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Global Payroll is one of the most technically and operationally complex product areas at Rippling. The team builds systems that help companies pay employees across countries, currencies, entities, and local compliance regimes while keeping payroll tightly connected to HRIS, benefits, time, finance, and accounting workflows.
Customers rely on Global Payroll for high-accuracy, compliance-sensitive workflows: calculating payroll, incorporating employee changes, handling local deductions and taxes, generating payslips and reports, supporting approvals and off-cycle runs, and syncing payroll data into downstream systems such as general ledger and accounting platforms.
The engineering challenge is to build highly reliable, auditable, country-aware systems that can scale across jurisdictions without creating fragmented local products. This requires strong distributed-systems judgment, deep product thinking, operational excellence, and the ability to design abstractions that make complex payroll workflows feel simple for customers.
We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer with 15+ years of software engineering experience to help lead the design and development of large-scale, mission-critical systems. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who can operate at high technical depth, influence across teams, and drive complex engineering initiatives from early problem definition through architecture, execution, launch, and long-term operational ownership. The ideal candidate is not only a strong architect, but also someone who remains close to code, understands implementation trade-offs, mentors other engineers, and raises the engineering bar across the organization.
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