About Rippling

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 $1.2B 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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About The Role

Rippling is on a remarkable growth trajectory, and our engineering team of nearly 800 professionals is at the core of this success, shipping code dozens of times every day. As a Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in safeguarding our infrastructure. You will collaborate with infrastructure, corporate security, detection and response, and product security teams to implement robust guardrails and create seamless, secure pathways. Your expertise will help define the future of our infrastructure security strategy, emphasizing secure defaults and end-to-end automation.

What You'll Do

• Implement Robust Security Controls: Secure our development and deployment ecosystem including GitHub, GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS.
• Support Secure Architecture Transition: Assist platform and infrastructure teams in securely transitioning to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• Drive Data Security Initiatives: Lead efforts to enhance data security across the organization, ensuring compliance and resilience.
• Define Actionable Security Metrics: Establish and disseminate key security metrics that offer clear insights and drive improvements.
• Tackle Complex Challenges: Dive into critical areas, rapidly identifying and resolving security issues.
• Shape the Security Roadmap: Lead the development and execution of a comprehensive infrastructure security roadmap and vision.
• Conduct Security Reviews: Participate in security design reviews and threat modeling exercises to preemptively address potential vulnerabilities.
• Mentor and Inspire: Provide guidance and mentorship to other engineers, fostering a culture of security excellence.

Qualifications

• Extensive Experience: 8+ years in security or software engineering within a cloud environment.
• Kubernetes Security Expertise: Deep understanding of Kubernetes security, including secure deployments, network policies, S2S authentication & authorization, RBAC, workload identity, admissions controllers, and runtime security.
• Programming Proficiency: Skilled in Python or Go for security-related development tasks.
• Deployment Automation Mastery: Expertise with deployment automation and configuration management tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, Buildkite, and Pulumi.
• AWS Security Acumen: In-depth knowledge of AWS security controls and services.
• Problem-Solving Prowess: Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments, identifying impactful areas and independently driving solutions.
• Influential Leadership: Proven track record of influencing and enabling forward-thinking technology decisions across large organizations.

Why Rippling?

• Impactful Role: Directly contribute to the security and success of a rapidly growing company.
• Innovative Environment: Be part of a cutting-edge engineering team that values forward-thinking solutions.
• Collaborative Culture: Work alongside talented professionals in a supportive and dynamic environment.
• Professional Growth: Advance your career with opportunities for leadership and skill development.

Additional Information

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accomodations@rippling.com

Rippling highly values in-office collaboration. Employees living within 30 miles of an office are expected to work onsite three days a week with those living 30-49.9 miles away expected to be in the office one day a week. Employees living over 50 miles away are required to relocate within 30 miles of an office.  To enhance team cohesiveness, new employees are asked to work onsite three days a week for their first six months.

This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.