Staff Software Engineer - Data Bridge

Overview

Ripping gives businesses one place to manage HR, IT, and Finance. It integrates all necessary systems like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers into a single platform.

Responsibilities

• Set up new hires' payroll, corporate cards, computers, benefits, and third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365 within 90 seconds.
• Lead mission-critical projects and deliver data ingestions capabilities end-to-end with high quality.
• Work within Rippling's central infrastructure team to deliver highly scalable distributed data ingestion systems and build a data lake architecture for various downstream systems.
• Get exposure to partners and customers in different business domains to provide feedback for your product space.
• Ensure operational excellence and scale the platform capabilities to serve many different UCs across Rippling products.
• 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.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional work experience as a backend engineer.
• Significant leadership experience driving complex cross-functional projects across teams, product managers, designers, etc.
• Expertise in building complex distributed services with high availability and strict SLAs.
• Experience building large-scale user-facing applications, APIs, and developer tools.
• Strong CS fundamentals, and knowledge of architecture and common design patterns.
• You’re passionate about being in a product-focused environment where everyone cares deeply about customer impact.
• Experience of running data processing pipelines in production using distributed data processing frameworks like Apache Spark or Flink.
• Bonus points if you’ve built integrations with 3rd party SaaS providers and workflow orchestration systems.
• Bonus points if you’ve previously worked with AWS and have working knowledge of observability tooling.

Qualifications

• San Francisco, CA
• Engineering position
• Competitive salary + benefits + equity
• Salary range: 189,000 - 330,750 USD per year (US Tier 1)
• Office-based employees must work at least three days a week.

Benefits

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 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.