Senior Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Senior Staff Engineer

About the role

Rippling is a company that brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. We enable businesses to manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term architecture of core platform systems that power dozens of products and hundreds of engineers
• Design highly scalable, reliable, and extensible distributed systems that serve as foundational building blocks across the company
• Lead large, cross-organizational initiatives that span multiple teams, products, and technical domains
• Translate ambiguous business and product requirements into elegant, durable technical solutions
• Drive architectural decisions that impact the future evolution of Rippling's Business Operating System
• Partner closely with senior engineering leaders to shape platform strategy and technical direction
• Build the infrastructure that enables AI systems to securely interact with live business data, workflows, permissions, and operational systems
• Develop core platform primitives that accelerate product development across the company
• Raise the engineering bar through mentorship, design reviews, technical leadership, and operational excellence
• Act as the directly responsible individual (DRI) for some of the company's most critical technical initiatives
• Help define how platform infrastructure evolves to support increasingly intelligent and autonomous software systems

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience operating at the Staff or Senior Staff level
• Deep expertise designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems
• Strong experience developing platform infrastructure, shared services, or foundational engineering systems
• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives across large engineering organizations
• Strong architectural judgment and a track record of designing systems that scale with both business growth and organizational complexity
• Experience building highly reliable backend systems in languages such as Python, Go, Java, or similar
• Strong computer science fundamentals, including distributed systems, concurrency, data modeling, networking, and systems design
• Experience operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments where ambiguity is high and execution speed matters

Qualifications

• A product mindset and passion for building platforms that unlock leverage for both developers and customers
• Excitement about the role AI will play in transforming enterprise software and the infrastructure required to support it

Skills

• Experience with distributed systems, concurrency, data modeling, networking, and systems design
• Experience building highly reliable backend systems in Python, Go, Java, or similar
• Experience leading complex technical initiatives across large engineering organizations
• Experience designing systems that scale with both business growth and organizational complexity
• Experience with AI and its integration with enterprise software

Benefits

• Competitive salary + benefits + equity
• Flexible work arrangements, including the option to work from home
• Collaborative work environment and company culture
• Opportunities for professional growth and development

Pay

• Salary range: 201,000 - 335,000 CAD per year (CA)
• Salary range: 207,000 - 345,000 USD per year (US)

Schedule

• Full-time position

Company

• Founded in San Francisco, CA
• Has raised $1.4B+ from top investors including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock
• Nominated as one of America's best startup employers by Forbes

Contact

• To apply, please visit our careers page