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

Rippling is rapidly expanding its global footprint and product ecosystem, and the HRIS (Human Resources Information System) Platform is at the center of that growth. The HRIS Platform powers every Rippling product and underpins critical workflows—from hiring and onboarding to payroll and benefits—making it one of the most foundational systems at the company.

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader within the HRIS Platform team, responsible for setting the vision and driving execution on core architectural initiatives. You will work across teams and functions to build a next-generation platform that meets the demands of a growing product surface, expanding global scale, and ever-increasing reliability and performance requirements. You will shape not only what we build, but how we build it—raising the bar for technical excellence, system design, and engineering culture across Rippling.

What you will do

• Drive the technical strategy for the HRIS Platform, setting direction for long-term architecture, scale, and reliability
• Design and ship foundational data models, services, and abstractions that power mission-critical flows and are adopted broadly across product teams
• Lead the evolution of our event-driven architecture and platform primitives
• Identify and execute on multi-quarter initiatives that improve the scalability, fault tolerance, and developer ergonomics of our platform
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and infrastructure leaders to define and deliver on key business and technical goals
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers across the HRIS group and broader org

What you will need

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of technical leadership and impact at scale
• Deep experience designing and building complex, distributed systems with high reliability and performance requirements
• Proven ability to influence engineering direction at the org-wide level through architecture, mentoring, and cross-functional alignment
• Strong product and business intuition; you know how to balance technical idealism with pragmatic execution
• Experience operating in a high-growth, fast-paced environment
• Expertise in designing platform primitives and abstractions that are broadly reusable across multiple teams

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.

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.