Staff Software Engineer - Events Platform

About RipplingRippling 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.We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.About the roleThe Events Platform team at Rippling builds the foundational infrastructure that powers a fully event-driven architecture across the company. As a core platform building block, the team enables systems to seamlessly emit, process, and react to events—unlocking critical capabilities like workflow automation, audit logging, and real-time product experiences.Operating at significant scale, the platform processes over a billion events per day and continues to grow at ~10% month over month, making it one of the most critical and high-impact systems within Rippling. In addition to providing core platform primitives and supporting engineering teams across the company, the team has also shipped Audit Log, a product that powers the auditing solution across Rippling. The team focuses on building highly reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly primitives that accelerate product development and ensure consistency across the ecosystem.What you will doLead mission-critical projects and deliver data ingestions capabilities end-to-end with high qualityHave clear ownership of one or many products, APIs or platform spacesWork within Rippling's central infrastructure team, responsible for delivering highly scalable distributed data ingestion systems, build a data lake architecture for various downstream systems to consumeGet exposure to partners and customers in different business domains, who will help provide feedback for your product spaceEnsure operational excellence and scale the platform capabilities to serve many Rippling ProductsBuild and grow your engineering skills in different challenging areas and solve hard technical problemsInfluence architecture, technology selections, and trends of the whole companyWhat you will need8+ years of professional work experience as a backend engineerSignificant leadership experience driving complex cross-functional projects across teams, product managers, designers, etcExpertise in building complex distributed services with high availability and strict SLAsExperience building large-scale user-facing applications, APIs, and developer toolsStrong CS fundamentals, and knowledge of architecture and common design patternsYou’re passionate about being in a product-focused environment where everyone cares deeply about customer impactYou have 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 systemsBonus points if you’ve previously worked with AWS and have working knowledge of observability toolingAdditional InformationRippling 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 View email address on click.appcast.io 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.