Senior Staff Software Engineer - Platform EngineeringSeattle, WA
Rippling
Senior Staff Software Engineer
We're hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer to help shape the future of Rippling's platform and AI infrastructure. This is a high-impact role for a distributed systems leader who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys solving complex technical problems, and wants to build foundational systems that power both Rippling's developer ecosystem and next-generation AI experiences.
Rippling's Platform organization builds and operates the shared infrastructure that powers nearly every product across the company. Our systems support close to 1,000 engineers and are built on top of a dynamically stitched, user-permissioned ontology, a scalable object platform store, event-driven dependency systems, and Rippling Query Language (RQL).
As AI becomes increasingly embedded across Rippling's products, Platform Engineering is central to building the infrastructure that enables intelligent, secure, and deeply integrated AI experiences. From search and workflow orchestration to permissions-aware data systems and developer tooling, this role will help define how AI operates across live business systems at scale.
We're looking for a technical leader who can architect durable distributed systems, drive complex cross-functional initiatives, and raise the technical bar across the organization while remaining deeply hands-on in design and implementation.
What You Will Do
- Act as a senior technical leader within Rippling's engineering organization
- Architect and drive large-scale distributed systems and platform initiatives spanning multiple teams and organizations
- Design highly scalable, reliable, and extensible platform services that power critical product experiences across Rippling
- Translate ambiguous technical and product requirements into durable, production-ready systems
- Drive technical strategy and influence architectural direction across the Platform organization
- Partner closely with senior engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders on strategic initiatives
- Improve engineering quality through technical mentorship, code reviews, design reviews, and operational leadership
- Own and deliver complex, high-impact technical projects end-to-end as the directly responsible individual (DRI)
- Help shape the future of AI-native infrastructure and developer tooling at Rippling
- Build systems that enable secure, permissions-aware, and highly reliable AI experiences operating on live company data
- Raise the bar for operational excellence, scalability, reliability, and engineering craftsmanship across the organization
What You Will Need
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Deep expertise building and operating large-scale distributed systems
- Strong experience designing scalable platform infrastructure and shared services
- Proven ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, high-growth environments with significant ambiguity
- Strong architectural instincts and a track record of building durable technical abstractions
- Experience developing scalable core services and infrastructure used across many products and teams
- Expertise building complex backend systems in Python, Golang, Java, or similar languages
- Strong computer science fundamentals, including systems design, data structures, concurrency, and distributed systems concepts
- Experience driving large cross-functional technical initiatives and influencing engineering organizations at scale
- Strong product and customer mindset with a passion for building platforms that enable exceptional user experiences
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 View email address on click.appcast.io
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.
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