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

We are innovating on a number of high impact projects inside the Rippling Infrastructure organization (which is a part of our larger Platform org): regional data residency, more flexible and performant streaming and batch data replication and processing primitives, batch jobs running with low latency elastically at scale, modernizing our transactional databases, decomposing our monolith, actionable operational health and cost dashboards and reducing dev cycle times. Additionally, we are improving the efficiency with which we're serving our internal customers by investing in automated control and removing humans from the loop.

Delivering effectively here is critical for us as we scale into new markets and segments through 2025 and to keep driving more efficiency while freeing product engineering teams to rapidly deliver customer innovation. We are looking for senior technical engineering leaders (managers and ICs) to drive good outcomes here while solving interesting technical problems. We operate with high ambition in a no-nonsense, fast-paced environment with strong ownership and a lot of individual autonomy.

Our Infra team covers Data, Compute, DevX, Tools, Observability, Application Frameworks, Performance and SRE.`

What you will do

• Develop high quality software with attention to detail
• Ship incrementally and continually at high velocity
• Jump into different and new codebases and diagnose issues and problems quickly
• Build for systems that scale for a large variety of use cases
• Tackle large scaling challenges that involve scaling our capabilities to support 100,000+ employee companies
• Work cross functionally with engineering leaders across the engineering org to plan and execute optimally in the face of high ambiguity
• Define the architecture of distributed systems solutions, taking into account the appropriate trade-offs

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in technical lead or architect roles
• 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 ambiguous 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

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 40 mile 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.