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 $1.4B+ 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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About the Role:

The Data Platform team works on building the blocks that are used by other teams at Rippling to create advanced HR applications at lightning fast speed. At the core of our technological aspirations lies this Team, a group dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what's possible with data. We architect high-performance, scalable systems that power the next generation of data products - ranging from reports, analytics, customizable workflows, search, and many new sets of products and capabilities to help customers manage and get unprecedented value from their business data. 

This is a unique opportunity to work on both product and platform layers at the same time. We obsess over the scalability and extensibility of platform solutions, ensuring that solutions will meet the needs across the breadth of Rippling's product suite, along with the applications of tomorrow. You won't just be crafting features; you'll be shaping the future of business data management.

What You'll Do:

• Develop high-quality software with attention to detail using tech stacks like Python, MongoDB, CDC, and Kafka
• Leverage big data technologies like Apache Presto, Apache Pinot, Flink, and Airflow
• Build OLAP stack and data pipelines in support of Reporting products
• Build custom programming languages within the Rippling Platform
• Create data platforms, data lakes, and data ingestion systems that work at scale
• Lead mission-critical projects and deliver data ingestion capabilities end-to-end with high-quality
• Have clear ownership of one or many products, APIs, or platform spaces
• Build and grow your engineering skills in different challenging areas and solve hard technical problems
• Influence architecture, technology selections, and trends of the whole company

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of software engineering experience. 
• Experience building large-scale distributed systems, such as high-volume SaaS environments.
• Preferred experience in building out large scale product infrastructures/platforms.
• Preferred experience in our technology stack- Python, Django, Golang, React, MongoDB, Presto, Pinot, Kafka, AWS.
• Ability to thrive in an dynamic environment by identifying areas of impact and independently pursuing them.
• A track record of influencing and enabling forward-thinking technology decisions across a wide organization.
• Excellent ability to communicate complex technical ideas with clarity and precision in written and verbal modes.

Rippling's special sauce is its ability to automatically react and understand changes and connections across many systems, and that stems from our unified platform. The Rippling Platform is the infrastructure of the best-run organizations so companies no longer have to rely on duct-tape integrations, or even worse, spreadsheets. On top of the Rippling Platform sits all of our natively built apps, including payroll, device management, and many more.

The next evolution of our Platform focuses on universal objects, where all objects—customer-defined data, first-party developer data, or third-party developer data—should attain the status of first-class citizens. This parallels the creation of a new type of database. Additionally, enabling next-generation product development. If you find solving these types of problems at scale exhilarating, this role is highly likely to be a perfect fit for you.

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 having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.