Senior Staff Software Engineer

15+ years of software engineering experience , preferably in backend, platform, infrastructure, distributed systems, product engineering, or systems engineering.

Proven experience operating at Senior Staff / Principal / Staff+ technical scope .

Deep hands-on engineering foundation with strong coding, debugging, design, and system-building experience.

Strong programming ability in one or more backend/general-purpose languages such as Python, Java, Go, C++, Scala, Kotlin, or C# .

Experience building and operating large-scale production systems.

Strong architecture and system design depth across distributed systems, APIs, databases, data modeling, concurrency, reliability, observability, and performance.

Ability to own ambiguous, cross-functional, multi-team technical initiatives end-to-end.

Strong technical judgment and ability to make trade-offs across speed, quality, scale, reliability, cost, and long-term maintainability.

Ability to influence senior engineers, product leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders without formal authority.

Strong mentorship mindset with a track record of raising the technical bar for other engineers.

Comfortable operating in fast-paced, high-ambiguity environments.

Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Experience in high-growth, hyper-growth, or product-led technology companies.

Experience building financial products at scale.

Exposure to payroll domain would be a plus.

Prior experience in SaaS, fintech, HR tech, payroll, benefits, compliance, IT, data platforms, or workflow-heavy domains.

Ability to operate as a “builder-leader” — someone who can define direction, align stakeholders, and still stay close to execution.

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 $1.85B+ from the world’s top investors - including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, Bedrock, GIC, Elad Gil and Goldman Sachs and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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